WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg vicarious – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1992-12-04) https://wist.info/watterson-bill/82486/ https://wist.info/watterson-bill/82486/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:53:16 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=82486 calvin & hobbes - 1992-12-04 excerpt

CALVIN: Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life, and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?


Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-12-04)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/watterson-bill/82486/feed/ 0 82486 Huxley, Aldous -- Eyeless in Gaza, ch. 17 (1922) https://wist.info/huxley-aldous/16753/ https://wist.info/huxley-aldous/16753/#respond Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:52 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=16753 One of the greatest attractions of patriotism — it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Sweet and decorous to murder, lie, torture for the sake of the fatherland.


Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Eyeless in Gaza, ch. 17 (1922)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/huxley-aldous/16753/feed/ 0 16753 Solzhenitsen, Alexander -- Nobel Lecture (1972) https://wist.info/solzhenitzen-alexander/5117/ https://wist.info/solzhenitzen-alexander/5117/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:46:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5117 The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.


Alexander Solzhenitsen (1918-2008) Russian novelist, emigre [Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn]
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