Showing posts with label iconoclasm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iconoclasm. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
A Quote I Can Relate To
I saw Chekhov's Uncle Vanya tonight. I was particularly taken with this speech by Astrov:
The educated people are hard to get along with. One gets tired of them. All our good friends are petty and shallow and see no farther than their own noses; in one word, they are dull. Those that have brains are hysterical, devoured with a mania for self-analysis. They whine, they hate, they pick faults everywhere with unhealthy sharpness. ..If they don't know what else to label me with, they say I am strange.
The educated people are hard to get along with. One gets tired of them. All our good friends are petty and shallow and see no farther than their own noses; in one word, they are dull. Those that have brains are hysterical, devoured with a mania for self-analysis. They whine, they hate, they pick faults everywhere with unhealthy sharpness. ..If they don't know what else to label me with, they say I am strange.
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