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The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote " Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here, with the quote appearing on p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p.Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.Evelyn Torton Beck "Why Is This Book Different from All Other Books?" in Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982).In those early years of struggle it seemed unworthy to make a fuss. Until I was fifteen I thought that being Jewish meant you walked around with your hand in your pants." In 1974, as an emerging lesbian, I didn't want to admit that the movement's leading fiction writer was basing her humor on age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes. I had managed to rationalize my shock and dismay when I found the narrator of Ruby fruit Jungle describing the fat Jewish girl Barbara Spangenthau as someone who "always had her hand in her pants playing with herself, and worse, she stank.Anzaldua interview in ‘’Backtalk : women writers speak out’’ by Donna Marie Perry (1993) Ideally, I would like to do both: publish with a small press and enlarge my audience by publishing with a mainstream press. It was women who put my work in print and I'm not going to turn my back on them. But the fact is that I'm sensitive to the publishing history of dykes and women of color. I also look at people like Rita Mae Brown and some of the writers who were supported by small presses that have switched over to mainstream presses.Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch (1989).In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person. I have changed my definition of tragedy.Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.but not originally hers, see Misattributed below. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Interview in OutSmart magazine (January 1998).
All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. I also think living in the country gives you faith.I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.Variant: "If the World Made Sense, Men Would Ride Sidesaddle" was the title of a 1993 one-man comedy by Ed Navis, performed at Wings Theatre, New York.If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. About all you can do in life is be who you are.Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation.You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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