2001-05-18 - 13:34
from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler

Now that I am back on my old computer, I once again have access to my humongous quotes file. On more than one occasion, I've sent the whole file to people at their request, so, operating under the assumption that more people might be interested, today I thought I'd share a selection with y'all. This is only a fraction of the file, of course.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble person he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays... Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. -- C. S. Lewis

If the way you have chosen seems arduous, and the work you have chosen is difficult, it is because you like it tough, and not that you are virtuous. Your way is not better, nor is it any worse, than the way of those who take it easy and take it as it comes. It's what you want to do; hard or easy, it's what you like to do. -- via Michael Freedman

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ill that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. -- Epictetus

"If you're gonna bang into a wall, do it like you mean it."
"And don't worry about looking geeky, 'cause you can look pretty later at the party."
"And don't be afraid to let people see your underpants."
-- Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri, SNL 25th Anniversary Special

IME, lies propagate faster than bunnies. There's usually no such thing as one lie; they tend to breed and migrate and end up tunnelling through the walls of your house when you least expect it. -- Loren Davidson

I began to get enormously interested in hearing how everybody said the same thing over and over again with infinite variations but over and over again until finally if you listened with great intensity you could hear it rise and fall and tell all that there is inside them . . . -- Gertrude Stein

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead we trust people to be who we want them to be-- and when they're not, we cry. -- David Duchovny

I easily developed toward her the anger you need to have toward someone you are hurting badly. -- Phyllis Rose

You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul,but you do -- merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing. I mean, here we all are, you know, and what are we to do about it?" -- Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

CrankyCritic: So it's not hard to be friendly with an actor.
Kevin Kline: Not at all. Is it hard to be a friend to someone who wants love more than anything else. Whose childhood, no matter how emotionally crippling. . .
Kenneth Branagh: and twisted.
Kevin Kline: . . . has now made him or her so needful and so desperate to be loved and embraced and accepted for who they are and that's what you yourself need -- it's a match made in heaven. Actors get on wonderfully with other actors.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. -- Bill Vaughan

No need to apologize. You're stupid; I'm rude. See you tomorrow. -- Dick, "3rd Rock from the Sun"

If this isn't what you see, it doesn't make you blind. If this doesn't make you feel, it doesn't mean you've died. -- Soundgarden, "Superunknown"

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. -- Hamlet

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