cman's quotes

Is a Lunatic a Minority of One?

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:18:52 -0600

"He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."

• Winston Smith from "1984", by George Orwell.

Tehanu from "The Other Wind", by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:35:04 -0600

"I think... that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed."

• The Other Wind, by Ursula K. LeGuin

Stuart Wilde Says Get off the Bus

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:34:24 -0500

"In a world where everything and everyone is required to be the same, eccentricity and individuality will get you banned from almost everywhere. I have always felt it’s better to wander off in one’s madness than to sit in shackles with the others on the bus."

• Stuart Wilde