WIST Quotations

Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 23, Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)

Dave — Tue, 11 May 2021 17:58:08 +0000

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 23, Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)
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Hepburn, Katharine -- In Michael Freedland, Katharine Hepburn (1984)

Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:11:25 +0000

If you survive long enough, you’re revered — rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) American actress
In Michael Freedland, Katharine Hepburn (1984)

A longer form of this is quoted in Susan Ware, Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century (1998): "Well, it's just a question of survival. If you survive long enough, you're revered, rather like an old building. The great trick is to get over the middle period. That's the tricky bit."

A variant is found in the Celebrity Register (1986): "If you survive you become a legend. I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time. I'm revered rather like an old building."

Greer, Germaine -- “Curves,” The Female Eunuch (1970)

Dave — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:23:53 +0000

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman’s neck: it endears her to the men who want to make their mammet of her, but she is never allowed to think that their popping eyes actually see her.

Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian-English feminist, reformer, author, educator
“Curves,” The Female Eunuch (1970)
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Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 38, I Shall Wear Midnight (2010)

Dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:51:56 +0000

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 38, I Shall Wear Midnight (2010)
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The protagonist, Tiffany, recalling something that Granny Weatherwax had once said.