Bouquet of Quotes
“These observations are to be considered not as unexceptionably constant, but as containing general and predominant truth.” — Samuel Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare”
“You and I, we’re puppets in the same sick play. We serve the same master, and he’s a lunatic, and he’s ungrateful, and there’s nothing we can do about it.” — Steven Segal in “Under Siege”
“The deepest essence of all godlessness is fear, and the sense of having lost the game.” — Franz Werfel’s “Forty Days of Musa Dagh”
“… they are enthralled by their own good will; they are people of fine feelings, and they dare not think lest the theraputic charm vanish.” — Lionel Trilling
“The need to be right — the sign of a vulgar mind.” — Albert Camus
“He’s so absent-minded, he thinks he’s pious.” — George “Gabby” Hays
“Our perogratives as men
Will be cancelled who knows when;
Still, I drink your health before
The gun-butt raps upon the door.”
— MacNeice’s 1936 toast
“The great misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of faith in the value of personal opinion.” — Boris Pasternak
“Prejudices are the culture of the uneducated.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“Protesting is the art of the talentless.” — Dennis Miller
“Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician,
Seem to see the things
thou dost not.” — “King Lear”
“If we are not lost soon, we can never be saved.” — Pre-Christian Greek saying
“You are lied to from birth. The first lie is there is no truth. And the second is that you are not lied to.” — Herbork
Conformable Quips
“Whoever acts like everyone else necessarily gets annoyed with whoever doesn’t act like him.” Andre Gide, in his Journal.
Conformists don’t know they are conformists because the point of conforming is how it seems to make you into a unique and special individual.
Conformist politics: The difference between helping weak people versus weakening people so you can help them.
There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who believe in either/or Aristotelian duality, and those who don’t. Conformists do.
“If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” Mickey Knox’s dialogue for Eli Wallach in “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” Conformists believe nonconformists owe them a living.
Conformists agree even before they know about what.
Conformist sherberts… Smug Mango, Aloof Blueberry, Needy Peach.
If you’re so smart, why are you a conformist?
Climate conformity: Notice the anti-human shift between classic “Nature,” which contains and nurtures Man, and “the environment,” whose enemy we are always depicted as being.
When a conformist dies, the unicorns dance…
Welcome, noncons!
Herbork is being launched to support the Kindle publication of a controversial new novel, Piece of Resistance — True Confession in His Own Words of the Notorious American Traitor. More about the book (“a fascinating and tumultuous read” — Nashville songwriter Emmett Grayson) as time goes on. First, Herbork’s pro tem mission statement…
Wordy, big-think sites multiply daily, so I hope, for now, to keep things pithy. Flashes of lightning rather than yet more blogger thunder. I am very much a nonconformist, an individualist, so here is my first flash…
When is a conformist not the smartest person in the room?
When he is alone there.
Herbork 