James Finn Garner quotes

“Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.”
-- James Finn Garner

Source : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.30, Souvenir Press

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“The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.”
-- James Finn Garner

Source : "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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“He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.”
-- James Finn Garner

Source : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.6, Souvenir Press

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“The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!”
-- James Finn Garner

Source : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.9, Souvenir Press

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“The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!”
-- James Finn Garner

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“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.”
-- James Finn Garner

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“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”

“Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.”

“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.”

“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

“It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.”