"That’s the thing with the young these days,……" — Nick Hornby

"That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short."

— Nick Hornby

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy. — Jacob M. Appel

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