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David Draiman

David Michael Draiman was born March 13, 1973 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA to a Jewish Orthodox family. He is the lead singer for the band Disturbed, which hails from Chicago, Illinois.

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 * I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
 * sleeve notes, The Sickness (2000)

 * [I'm] Very positive about the internet, Napster. I think it's a tremendous tool for reaching many more people than we ever could without it. When you release music you want it to be heard by people... Nothing is going to do that better than Napster. I can't tell you how many kids have come up to me and said, "I downloaded a couple of tunes off Napster and I went out and bought the album."...I don't really make money off of record sales anyway.
 * Interview with David Draiman of Disturbed, NY Rock, July 2001)

 * I think that labels are foolish in not using the Internet, instead of being afraid of it. I think that if AOL Time Warner were smart enough, they'd enter into a contract agreement with their own company — AOL — and agree on one thing: They have the ability to track anywhere that a message comes from, no matter what service you're signed up with, via an IP address. You just make sure that whenever a song is downloaded by somebody utilizing your server, whether it's AOL, or Mindspring, or anybody else, you access a minimal charge for these downloads. It could be 75 cents or a dollar, a dollar-fifty… This way, at least you're making money off it. At least this way the people who are supposed to be making money off the product still can, as well. It still gives people the opportunity to go ahead and download as much as they want. It's a standard fee for doing a service, or for having a service available to them. They'll do it, and at the end of the month, they'll have their AOL statement, or their Mindspring statement, and it will have their download tax added onto the bill. And it will keep on going. The labels don't think of this. It seems like I've been talking about this to deaf ears on this topic for the last five years. Before we even got signed, I was talking about this. It's just preposterous to me that labels, for the most part, are the reasons for their own demise. They're just so stuck in this old way of thinking, and unfortunately, the good elements of their old way of thinking have all gone away. They don't spend enough time developing artists, they throw a whole bunch of shit against the wall and wait for something to stick, and when it doesn't, they let it fall off.
 * Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)

 * Nonsense. I think that the problem isn't with them downloading the song, the problem is when they buy the record and when they burn a million discs off their computer for all their friends. That's the reason why every single band, no matter who you are, your sales are chopped by fifty to sixty percent after your first week out. It's a huge problem, but instead of giving people more reasons to buy the product, they don't worry about that. I think you have to enhance the value of the product. Like when KISS was putting out records, their 'Alive' record sold so well because it made you feel like you were part of the concert experience. There was also an actual program in the thing, all these pictures, the KISS Army stuff… There's so much stuff that added to the value of that package. There wasn't a KISS fan out there who didn't want the whole thing, because everything that came along with the music was so worthwhile to them. It's not rocket-science, this stuff.
 * Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)

 * This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection.
 * Disturbed Singer Blasts Record Companies Over Lawsuits Against Downloaders, Blabbermouth.net, 11 september 2003)

 * [about the name Disturbed] It had been a name I have been contemplating for a band for years. It just seems to symbolize everything we were feeling at the time. The level of conformity that people are forced into was disturbing to us and we were just trying to push the envelope and the name just sorta made sense.
 * Livewire's one on one - David Draiman talks disturbing thoughts, concertlivewire.com, 19 February 2005)

 * [on Phil Anselmo] I think that he's probably one of the more enigmatic frontman of our time. He's tremendously inspirational to vocalists throughout the genre including myself. I know that there's some weirdness regarding the "incident," but I certainly know that Phil would have never in his darkest thoughts ever have wanted any harm to befall Dime. You know the world is a very, very extreme place. When a fan gets so connected to a band that the demise of the band, however they want to interpret it, leads them to question their own lives and their existence... I mean it's weird. There are too many types of music that inspire that passion in people and thankfully metal is one of them. It's just unfortunate that this animal happened to take the demise of Pantera so seriously that he felt that it was justification for him to do what he did. He took the life of probably one of the greatest guitar players to walk the face of the Earth.
 * David Draiman talks disturbing thoughts, concertlivewire.com, 19 February 2005)

 * I had been taking Prevacid for about four years and my body built up a resistance to it, to the point where it wasn't doing anything anymore... I had a night of drinking in London followed by a full day and night of drinking on a day off in Dublin, because what else is there to do in Ireland but drink? That, coupled with a show where I had monitor problems, and I pretty much trashed my voice.
 * Life Is Sweet For Disturbed — Apart From A Little Acid Reflux, Jon Wiederhorn di MTV, 16 November 2005)

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American author, paleontologist, and prolific blogger perhaps most famous for the novels The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and The Red Tree. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.

Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003)

 * To paraphrase Truman Capote, finishing a novel is like taking a child out behind the house and shooting it. To which I would hasten to add, that makes critics a bit like stranger who come along later to piss on the corpse.

To Charles Fort, With Love (2005)

 * Give me enough words, enough attendant gravity, and I might fall into myself forever, crushed infinitely flat by my own hubris. It'd be a neat trick, I admit. I'd pay to see it — but from a safe distance, of course.

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

 * I've seen so goddamn much — I've seen so much that there's no reasonable excuse for looking away, because there can't be anything left that's more terrible than what has come before.

 * Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.

 * I sincerely hope I'm not as big a fool as that. Whatever else I may be, I like to think that I'm not an idiot.

 * The divine is always abominable.

Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries)

 * Unfit for Mass Consumption : The Online Journal of a Construct Sometimes Known as Caitlín R. Kiernan (Caitlín R. Kiernan's LiveJournal), as well as previous blog incarnations including: "Species of One: Confessions of a Lady Writer and Alien Malcontent

2001

 * And speaking of Massachusetts, I just heard on CNN that the first human cloning has been successfully performed there. I'm not inherently opposed to the idea of cloning humans (or anything else), but I have to question the need for any technology that produces more of us. Making babies is about the only thing for which our species seems to display a more or less universal talent. We hardly need any help.
 * (26 November 2001)

 * I was thinking, earlier, how there's this stigma attached to "writing for money" and how odd that is, as though writing is akin to sex (another "creative" act?) and writing for money is akin to prostitution in the minds of so many people. Whoring with adjectives, so to speak. Do I give good prose? Look up the definition of "hack." So, there must be the perception that writing, like the priesthood, comes with some higher purpose in tow. Getting paid well somehow sullies the purer cause. I've heard writers dismiss something or another that they've written by explaining, "Oh, yes, I know that sucked, but I only wrote it because they paid me so much money." And then we might even forgive them a piece of crap, because we have a sensible explanation. That wasn't a real orgasm. I was only faking the plot. Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner in Hollywood.
 * (29 November 2001)

2003

 * The world wants oatmeal. It is not my job to give the world oatmeal. It is my job not to be a hack. It is my job to try to make the world chew, lest its lazy jaw muscles atrophy and its collective mandible withers and all its teeth fall out. It is my job, as a writer, to give the world toffee and peanut brittle and tough steak and celery. I write peanut butter sandwiches, not oatmeal. And every time some dolt whines, "I'm confused" or "I don't understand" or "This doesn't make any sense," I should smile and know that I'm doing my job. Not because it is my job to be opaque, but because it is not my job to be transparent.
 * (23 June 2003)

2004

 * A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg.
 * (7 December 2004)

 * I'm not kidding, and I'm not being hyperbolic — sometimes I hate this thing I do more than I could ever say. Sometimes, it seems that I spend my days dragging people whose only crime is that I am their creator through the filth and pain and degradation of my own despicable imagination. Where is the good in this? Where is the resolution? Where is the sense of it? If I had even a scintilla of belief in a "higher" intelligence of any sort, days like yesterday (and, by extension, today) would, on the one hand, give me some degree of sympathy for the idiot dieties unable to craft a better universe, and, on the other hand, it makes me grateful I have no such beliefs, because the anger I would have for that "higher" whatever would be inexpressible. And I cannot imagine that there are actually people out there — self-professed "horror" writers — who are trying to elicit these emotions in others, who are purposefully driving their characters on through all the futile, dead-end nightmares that might be devised. I would not do this. I swear I would not do this, if I could find other words in me.
 * (20 December 2004)

 * No matter what you may have heard elsewhere or however you may have romanticized the life of working writers, know this: it is, with very, very few exceptions, a brutal, ugly, and unrelentingly difficult existence. It is a grind, no matter how much you may love to write or feel driven to tell stories. Personal demons aside, you will encounter at almost every turn no shortage of idiots and shitheels upon whom you must depend to get your work to readers. Occasionally, there will be a fortunate aberration: a wonderful, brilliant editor, or a copyeditor who doesn't try to express herhimitself vicariously by attempting to rewrite your work, or an agent who busts hisherits ass for you. You may even be so fortunate as to encounter a publisher who cares more about herhisits authors than the bottom line. Those things do happen. But don't ever fucking count on it. If you come to this life, and if you "make it" and can actually eek out some sort of living writing, you will likely learn these things for yourselves. Plenty of people will tell you I'm full of shit on this account. And you are certainly free to listen to whomever you please. But after fourteen years as a full-time writer, during which time I have had great successes and profound failures, seen modest fortune and considerable poverty and everything in-between, been appreciated and reviled, awarded and ignored, helped and hindered — one thing remains true. It's a tough row to hoe, as my Grandfather Ramey would have said. And you do yourself and all working authors a disservice if you dare believe otherwise.
 * (25 November 2006)

 * On our present course, this may eventually stand as the ultimate achievement of Homo sapiens sapiens. We should take a bow. We are obviously planet killers. The question is, can we also be planet saviors? I'd say that seems unlikely. Happy Earth Day.
 * (22 April 2004)

2005

 * There are many words and phrases that should be forever kept out of the hands of book reviewers. It's sad, but true. And one of these is "self-indulgent." And this is one of those things that strikes me very odd, like reviewers accusing an author of writing in a way that seems "artificial" or "self-conscious." It is, of course, a necessary prerequisite of fiction that one employ the artifice of language and that one exist in an intensely self-conscious state. Same with "self-indulgent." What could possibly be more self-indulgent than the act of writing fantastic fiction? The author is indulging her- or himself in the expression of the fantasy, and, likewise, the readers are indulging themselves in the luxury of someone else's fantasy. I've never written a story that wasn't self-indulgent. Neither has any other fantasy or sf author. We indulge our interests, our obsessions, and assume that someone out there will feel as passionately about X as we do.
 * (24 July 2005)

 * Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
 * (24 July 2005)

 * I want to build vast machines of light and darkness, intricate mechanisms within mechanisms, a progression of gears and cogs and pistons each working to its own end as well as that of the Greater Device. That's what I see in my head. But, too often, I sense that many readers want nothing more complex or challenging than wind-up toys. It's dispiriting.
 * (3 January 2005)

 * The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she — the author — should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
 * (10 January 2005)

 * Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.
 * (16 January 2005)

 * Isn't there some great, grim irony in the fact that the whole country gets a day off work in honor of a man who struggled against and died to end oppression, even after having re-elected one of the greatest would-be oppressors of the last century? And that the threat of freedom for a minority may have been what finally tipped the electoral scales in Dominar Bush's favor? Yes, I think that's what it is, a great, grim irony. King said, "No one is free until we are all free." Somehow, the Reverend Bernice King has missed that part, as have so many other Americans. All or nothing. Personally, I think that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day should have been suspended this year in recognition of Bush's second term. A nation cannot simultaneously pat itself on the back for granting this group of people freedom and strive to deny freedom to this other group. Or, rather, it can, but it should not be permitted to do so. The vacation has not been earned because the work is not finished.
 * (17 January 2005)

 * All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.
 * (19 January 2005)

 * [On test audiences and alternate endings on DVDs] Seeing these two endings, knowing that the studio most likely chose the one that would close the film after polling test audiences, makes me a little ill. What if I did that with my novels? What would you think of me, if I were to so subvert the act of storytelling and mythmaking in an effort to make more money (by, I might add, perverting democracy)? Okay, at the end of Low Red Moon, I can kill Chance, or I can let her live. Which ending do you prefer? Check the box, and let us know. Should Orpheus make it back to the surface without looking to see if Eurydice is truly following him, or should he look? Should the mouse pull the thorn from the lion's paw, or should he mind his own damned business? I can only hope that it is self-evident that this process is as alien and destructive to art as anything ever could be. Yes, I'm sure it makes people more money, and money is nice, but it has very little to do with telling good and true and useful stories.
 * (22 January 2005)

 * At some point, I stopped and made the following note to myself: I have never finished a story. I'm beginning to see that now. I don't think that there's ever a point where a story or novel is just exactly right. There are only finer and lesser degrees of refinement, and even those are probably subjective. You might think it's perfect for a time, but read it a year or five years later, and you'll see you were mistaken. There's always something I can make better, every time I read one of my stories. Usually there are dozens of somethings. And I once thought this wasn't true, that a story reached a certain point and beyond that point you were only changing things, making them different, not making them better. Indeed, I thought, beyond a point, you risk screwing it all up. '''I don't think that anymore. You risk screwing it all up right from the start, and no story is ever as perfect as it can be. Perfection is always one or two polishes away from the writer.
 * (29 January 2005)

 * Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
 * (31 January 2005)

 * Yesterday was an utter waste. An artist, of whatever stripe, has only so many days, to write or paint or dance or whatever, and each one wasted is that much that will never be accomplished.
 * (20 February 2005)

 * Sometimes, I think that the most alien thing to mankind is mankind itself. The real aliens live next door or across the border or somewhere overseas. Each man and woman defines the world about them, creating a set of those things which they consider "normal" and "good" and "evil" and "sympathetic" and "likable," and these are damned indomitable walls. They are high and thick, and it is the task of the writer to penetrate or scale them. To break in. To shatter preconceptions. To force people to rethink cherished opinions and prejudices.
 * (12 August 2005)

2006

 * I'm not sure if erotica should be angry and grim and terrifying and bitter, but it works for me. I rode my frustration. I kicked the bitch in the ribs until it spat up what I needed.
 * (19 January 2006)

 * Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.
 * (11 December 2006)

 * If there must be resolution and explanation, it must be something worth its weight in mystery. Most times, I'd be content with the mystery.
 * (12 December 2006)

2007

 * Basically, I wish I could read the way I used to read. I did not dissect as I read. I simply became immersed in the story and let it sweep me happily along. Now I cannot help but dissect. I try not to, but I do anyway. I cannot help but see "flaws" and all the ways I think I could have done this better. I would suspect that all writers are like this, to one degree or another. Writers are the gods of their universes, and we are never at a loss to suggest how some other god might better run herhisits universe/s. At least, this is true of me. It is one reason I read so much less fiction than I did fifteen years ago. And, actually, stage magic is not a bad metaphor for this problem I now have as a reader. I am precisely like a magician watching another magician's act. I should be suckered in with the rest of the crowd. I passionately desire to have the wool pulled over my eyes. Only it very rarely happens, as I'm too busy figuring out how it's all being done and how I could improve upon it … I just can't help but read it as a novelist. This is, from my perspective, unfortunate. I don't want to know how the trick works. I want to be amazed. I want to be convinced of the magic. But this is what I do. I spend my days gluing words together to try and fool other people. And I can't help but try to see how other writers, especially writers who have found more commercial success than have I, make it work. Sadly, I don't even find the mechanics & theory of fiction writing remotely interesting, which makes this doubly frustrating. It's just a reflex.
 * (16 January 2007)

 * Art is not science. Even when art is about science, it is still art. There cannot be consensus, in the sense that science strives for meaningful consensus. And unlike science, art is not progressive. Personally, I have my doubts that science can be said to be genuinely progressive, but I'm pretty dammed certain that art is not. Which is not to say that it is not accumulative or accretionary. But the belief that sf writers are out there forecasting the future, that they have some social responsibility to do so, that's malarky, if you ask me. Writers of sf can only, at best, make educated guesses, and usually those guesses are wrong, and clumping together to form a consensus does not in any way insure against history unfolding in one of those other, unpredicted directions. People love to pick out the occasional instances where Jules Verne and William Gibson got it right; they rarely ever point fingers at their miscalls.
 * (15 June 2007)

 * I pondered exactly how future biographers would go about writing the biographies of authors without letters. It's not like email and "chat" and whatnot will fill the void. Online journals help a little, but they are not, generally, the truly honest sorts of things that letters were, and only a few authors keep them. I tried for years to keep up letter writing, but was defeated in the end by too many unreliable correspondents.
 * (27 June 2007)

 * Bad writing days are days when you mean to write and can't, or are interrupted so frequently that nothing gets done. I'm disheartened at how often I see the blogs of aspiring writers bemoaning how slowly a book or story is coming along. They have somehow gotten it in their heads that writing is a thing done quickly, efficiently, like an assembly line with lots of shiny robotic workers. The truth, of course, is that writing is usually slow, and inefficient, and more like trying to find a cube of brown Jello that someone's carelessly dropped into a pig sty. Five hundred words in a day is good. So is a thousand. Or fifteen hundred. A good writing day is a day when one has written well, and the word counts be damned. Finishing is not the goal. Doing the job well is the goal. And I say that as someone with no means of financial support but her writing, as someone who is woefully underpaid for her writing, and as someone with so many deadlines breathing down her neck that she can no longer tell one breather from the other. Sometimes, I forget this, that daily word counts are irrelevant, that writing is not a race to the finish line. One need only write well if one wishes to be a writer. A day when one does not do her best merely so that more may be written, that's a bad writing day.
 * (20 July 2007)

 * A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
 * (7 January 2007)

 * It has been my experience that many people actually believe that writers live in a state of perpetual inspiration. Maybe this is the source of that annoying "Where do you get your ideas from?" question. Maybe the people who believe writers live in a state of perpetual inspiration are the same people who ask that question, thinking — wrongly — that there's a trick of some sort involved. And if a writer would but tell them the trick, then they too would have access to the bottomless well of ideas and live in a state of perpetual inspiration. In my case, at least, there is no bottomless fucking well of ideas, and if I only wrote when I truly felt inspired, I'd starve and live in a cardboard box at the corner of Crack and Whore (which is to say, the corner of Ponce and Piedmont). But, that said, there does have to be a spark. What people ought to be asking me is "Where do you get those tiny, little infinitesimally faint sparks that you then somehow manage to blow up into ideas?" Of course, my answer would be, "I have no inkling whatsoever."
 * (5 August 2007)

 * I cannot force it. I have never been able to force it. Like I've said before, writing is a wild magic (at least it is for me). It comes when it's ready, and then, if I'm lucky, I have some small say in where it goes and what it does. This is one reason I can't comprehend why some writers talk so much about "craft." Crafts are something you learn how to do. I never learned to write. I write better now than I did ten years ago, and far better than I did twenty years ago, but I'm not exactly sure why. To me, it is an almost ineffable thing. I try to explain what it is I do, and how it is I do it … on those extremely rare occasions when I try to explain … and, for me, it's like grasping at air. I have no craft talk, no theory, no dos and don'ts, no discernible process. I sit here in my chair at my desk in front of the iMac, and when I'm lucky, it happens. It's not so much that I think the "writing as craft" people are wrong. They can't be wrong, not if they are crafting stories and know they are crafting stories. But I don't craft stories. So, for me, we have here these two different paradigms. I spark. They craft. Two incommensurable world views. I cannot explain to them what it is that I do. I cannot even explain it to myself. And I cannot comprehend what they do.
 * (5 August 2007)

 * We are indeed living at the end of the Golden Age of Mankind, or at least the end of this particular human civilization. That almost everything we take for granted today may, only a couple of decades farther along, seem entirely remarkable, that our most mundane artefacts and toys will stand as incredible examples of luxury and excess. That all of this will pass away, and the "simplest" bits of our day-to-day lives will become miracles of a half-remembered past. A past which will be responsible for that future-present misery. It is difficult to force myself through the trivial routine of my days when these thoughts are front and center. It is difficult to see beyond the veil they draw up about me and difficult to push it all aside long enough to write my silly little stories.
 * (29 March 2007)

 * There is no "right way" to write a book. There is only the way that the author needs it to be written, because the novel serves the author, even as the author serves the story, and failure is the act of failing to pull off that trick. (13 October 2008)

2010

 * I'm wondering how the new crop of teens and twentysomethings became so afraid of emotion and the expression thereof.* Did their parents teach them? Did they learn it somewhere else? Is this a spontaneous cultural phenomenon? Are they afraid of appearing weak? Is this capitalism streamlining the human psyche to be more useful by eliminating anything that might hamper productivity? Is it a sort of conformism? I don't know, but I could go the rest of my life and never again hear anyone whine about someone else being "emo," and it would be a Very Good Thing.
 * * The suggestion has been made that they are so much expressing fear as contempt, and I am open to that possibility, though fear and contempt often go hand in hand.
 * "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. (3 April 2010)

 * Could anything be more inimical to art than a fear of emotion, or a fear of "excessive" emotion, or a reluctance to express emotion around others? No, of course not. Art can even best the weights of utter fucking ignorance and totalitarian repression, but it cannot survive emotional constipation. I want a T-shirt that says, "Art is Emo." We live in an age where people are more apt to believe a thing if they read it on a T-shirt.
 * "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. (3 April 2010)

 * '''In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.
 * (12 December 2010)

Interviews

 * Traveling Through Dreams: Sequential Tart interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan (February 1999)
 * An interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan: Author of Silk and The Dreaming (Nov. 14, 1999)
 * Universal Studios Horror Online Interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan (April 2000)
 * Dreamweaver: An Interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan (October 2000)
 * Pain, Wonder, and Really Old Things: An Interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan (October 2001)
 * An Interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan by Geoffrey H. Goodwin at Bookslut (November 2004)
 * What Are You Afraid Of? An Interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan (December 2005)
 * Caitlin R. Kiernan Walks The Plank at VanderWorld (April 2006)
 * Caitlin R. Kiernan discusses Sirenia Digest (December 2006)
 * Caitlín R. Kiernan, Atlanta Dark Fantasy Novelist (January 2007)
 * Author Interview: Caitlin R. Kiernan at "Fear Zone" (April 2008)

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Warren Bennis
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Talk:James Otis Jr.

he was a crazy man that shaped our history in more ways than one.

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Talk:James Thurber

Original request
Okay, in 24 hours I've tracked down about 50 of these, added the attributions and organized them a bit into sections. Inclusionist that I am, I deleted nothing, and added just one really famous cartoon caption (about the seal in the bedroom). Even so, it looks as though someone pasted in (without attributions) almost everything in Yahoo's quotations by Thurber, and that may be excessive. I say this because a large portion of a fairly obscure essay, "I Believe", has been imported to Wikiquote. I leave it to someone who isn't fresh off the boat from Wikipedia to determine whether exceeds fair use and is less than notable. Mavarin 02:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, you've flagged it. Good. Please let me know if there's anything further I need to do. My guess it that removing the "I Believe" section in its entirety will abate the problem, because that's where the large blocks of text mostly come from.  Also, these quotes are less notable than the fable morals, the cartoon captions and other short, well-known quotes. Mavarin 09:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * On second thought, there are some rather large chunks in the letters and interviews that should probably go away also. Not the Murrow one, because that's legitimately famous; but the "memo to the New Yorker" stuff and other long, relatively obscure quotes may be problematic.Mavarin 09:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and removed the problematic "I Believe" section, on the theory that it's better to err on the side of caution. Mavarin 06:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Fuller?
"Early to go to Bed, and early to rise, Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise." Was it Franklin or Fuller that said this originally? This page says it's Franklin, but it's listed on Fullers page (and not Franklins). 217.118.209.250 08:42, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Franklin's quote appears in Poor Richard's Almanack (1735). Thurber's parody resembles Franklin's wording more closely than Fuller's and, although neither was particularly original[1], the attribution to Franklin was more popular in Thurber's time. [1: Fuller frankly collected proverbs "receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving" ("To the Reader"), and Franklin was shameless about "those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel" (Mark Twain, "The Late Benjamin Franklin".] ~ Ningauble 17:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi ho Silver?
Uh.. What's with the unicorn sculpture? If it lacks direct relevance, what about deleting it? Opinions..

 * I've just added a photo of Thurber to head the article, which wasn't available previously, and will probably do more work on it soon. Though the unicorn doesn't have any specific and obvious "direct relevance" to the story used for its caption, the phrase used has relevance to the image, and in a more expansive way to the themes and ideas used in many of Thurber's stories, of the relevance of whimsy and other "irrelevancies", including of course "The Unicorn in the Garden". ~ Kalki 08:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the explanation, Kalki. With your help I've now succeeded in penetrating the allusion. Will it be equally apparent to others readers? Frankly, I believe that absent your enlightening clue, readers will remain, er.., clueless. It is indeed unfortunately that explicit clarification of this point would detract from the very feeling whimsy you wish to invoke!

 * A further problem you might want to consider is that both unusual attentiveness and superior eyesight are needed to distinguish the image from a conventional equestrian statue. At first I thought the image hinted at some as yet undiscovered martial tale in Thurber's ouevre. Taken together I was glad to learn that you've posted an image of the author and hope that the unicorn may soon be banished to its mythical homeland. Kind regards! --Philopedia 14:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to James Thurber. --Antiquary 18:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'

 * Don't let that chip on your shoulder be your only reason for walking erect.

 * A fish is like a dish that floats in the sea but is no greater than me.

 * He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

 * Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

 * Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

 * I hate women because they always know where things are.

 * I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

 * I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

 * I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

 * If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

 * It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

 * Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

 * Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

 * Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

 * Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

 * Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

 * No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

 * Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

 * Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

 * Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

 * So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

 * Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

 * The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

 * The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion.

 * The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

 * The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

 * There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception

 * There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

 * Yes, my works lose something in the original.
 * said to an admirer who told him that his output read very well in French translation

 * Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

 * We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

 * Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

 * Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

 * Never allow a nervous female to have access to a pistol, no matter what you're wearing.

This seems to be quoted often: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. But all the angels are in heaven, and few of the fools are dead. 99.189.199.211 20:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:List of Simpsons Prank Calls

"It ruins the joke if you have to explain it ..."
If it's decided that this doesn't infringe copyright, please can we remove all the

Hold on, I'll check. [calls] Oliver Klozoff! Call for "All of her clothes off"!

'explanations' embedded in almost all of these quotes? Really, guys, we have the intelligence to work out what the joke is :-)

My edit disappeared
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50 Cent
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Your account will be renamed
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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Tee89. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tee89~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Grungeman

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User talk:Liangxue

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User talk:Arkaninger

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User talk:Eg47

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Template:Recommended order of cleanup templates

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User talk:Robert~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Robert. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Robert~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:I'm an atheist

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User talk:Exect4500

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User talk:Subash1989

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User talk:McClean5552

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User talk:Brianjames76

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User talk:John Monaghan

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User talk:Ferrylodge

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Welcome. You have seom good ideas for the abortion page, but you did not try to achieve consensus before making changes to what is already in the page. Please announce your suggested changes and invite dialogue before changing. 84.146.239.179

 * Okay, I just wrote a few paragraphs for the discussion section.Ferrylodge 01:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Abortion: Please go ahead and make the technical corrections, such as standardizing titles and name formats. But for the other changes, please propose them one by one in talk, and then we can discuss them. Some of your ideas have merit, but the firehose approach is not helpful especially when you have been politley invited to seek consensus and feedback for your changes. 84.146.233.113

I wholeheartedly support your position on the misleading Harris poll in the abortion article. 84.146.233.113

Please do not delete quotes when you find a mistake in the formatting. The correct thing to do it to correct the formatting. I believe you know how to do this as you have done it repeatedly. Deleting quotes is poor form. Thank you.84.146.227.125 15:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Please see talk page for abortion.Ferrylodge 15:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Work on Abortion
I admire what you're trying to do on Abortion. I was trying to improve the page long ago (well, long ago on a Wikipedia timescale) and gave up on it since arguing with trolls was taking up most of my editing time. I have an edited version of the article at User:Catamorphism/Abortion_temp where I tried to balance the perspectives and remove the less interesting quotations, if that's helpful.

Unfortunately, it seems like the lack of resources that can be devoted to administration on Wikiquote mean that you are going to have to spend a lot of time arguing with the trolls, as well, if you try to make any improvements. Good luck.

BTW I assume that the anonymous user who keeps hassling you is User:Mr. Grace, who has a long and checkered past here. So don't get too frustrated; you're the one who's in the right. Catamorphism 23:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks, we'll see how things develop.Ferrylodge 00:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Ken Thompson

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User talk:Megastar

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User talk:Coyote Duran~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Coyote Duran. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Coyote Duran~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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