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- The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
- Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
- People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
- A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two…
- And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in…
- People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...
- Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human…
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have…
- My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .
- But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or…
- A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
- I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
- Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of…
- ... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.
- The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think…
- I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
- I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention…
- I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a…
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