Anthony Boucher Quotes

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

Anthony Boucher

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• Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

  

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• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

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• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

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• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

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• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  

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• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

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• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

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• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

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• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

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• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  

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• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

  

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• A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.

  

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• I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

  

  Anthony Boucher
  • Master
  • Terror
  • Sobriety