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He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time. David Guterson
Idries Shah quote: "We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends. But how..."
We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends. But how many people have verified that physically possible? Idries Shah
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Salman Rushdie quote: "Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the..."
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. Salman Rushdie
John Updike quote: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep..."
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. John Updike
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people? the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. George Orwell
Judith Martin quote: "Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage..."
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. Judith Martin
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling..."
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. Nicholas Sparks
We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel. Charles M. Schulz
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and... Daniel Webster
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. Katharine Hepburn
T. H. White quote: "The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like..."
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards. T. H. White
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic. Chuck Palahniuk
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it. Alice Walker
When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises, Paulo Coelho

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