Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it. That is your punishment. But if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
— Stephen Fry
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Castlepaloma
Level 8
Aug 25, 2024
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...found in "I Seem to be a Verb" by Buckminster Fuller:
I live on Earth at the present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction book didn't come with it.
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racocn8
Level 9
Aug 25, 2024
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Ryo1:
I like that!
Well that's why he is fat
Communistbitch
Level 6
Aug 25, 2024
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Ryo1:
Yes, we can be adjectives, too. Lol
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