“Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.” KnowsLooksKnowingMissingNot KnowingLooking Down Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.” CharacterFeelingsHomeMightCareFatherGivenFamilyKnowingMissingOughtConcernLettersLongingTendernessNot KnowingAdvise Author:John Adams
“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealBodySpaceFictionKnowingRichMissingCreatingClothesStrangerPassingPassingsDimensionsNot KnowingEnticing Author:Miranda July
“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesHardFallGivenChristHoursWatchesKnowingComedyMissingJokesRainWindowHeavyLondonStaringFlatsNervesNot KnowingTireExhaustion Author:Martin Amis