Althusser Symptomatic Reading Quotes

#1. I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

Henny Youngman

#2. At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Al Purdy

#3. Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ...

Linda Sue Park

#4. For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

Damien Hirst

#5. It was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.

Ivo Andric

#6. Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

#7. What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

Robert Walser

#9. One of the things I've read about borderlines is that we alternate between a sense of entitlement and the belief that we're lower than the dirt under people's shoes.

Stacy Pershall

#10. Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

Zhang Yimou

#11. Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

Margaret Atwood

#12. I love making friends ... it's people I can't stand.

Linus Torvalds

#13. Only when you learn to hear a thought and see a thought can you control a thought.

Toni Sorenson