Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant
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| - | "[[Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant]]" is a dictum attributed to American writer [[Nathanael West]]. It is first cited in ''[[Film as a Subversive Art]]'' in 1974. As of 2015, its origin was not found in [[Google Books]][https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Your+order+is+meaningless,+my+chaos+is+significant%22&num=50&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ei=_nWAVIOOHKT17AbEtICwAw&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=639] before this. The quote is probably [[spurious]]. | + | "[[Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant]]" is a dictum attributed to American writer [[Nathanael West]]. It is first cited in ''[[Film as a Subversive Art]]'' in 1974. As of 2015, its origin was not found in [[Google Books]][https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Your+order+is+meaningless,+my+chaos+is+significant%22&num=50&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ei=_nWAVIOOHKT17AbEtICwAw&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=639]. The quote is probably [[spurious]]. |
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"Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant" is a dictum attributed to American writer Nathanael West. It is first cited in Film as a Subversive Art in 1974. As of 2015, its origin was not found in Google Books[1]. The quote is probably spurious.
See also
- Mental illness
- "Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness" --Pascal
- "It is not by confining one's neighbor that one is convinced of one's own sanity" -- Dostoievsky
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