"I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Block Quotes #People Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.3, University Press of Kentucky
“If you boss you think you can your instructor around, you won't learn.”
“If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach.”
“Love is perfect kindness.”
“Deaf rage that hears no leader.”
“Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a question of whether the play goes well or badly. It's not the audience reaction, it's my reaction. I'm rather hostile toward audiencesÂ—I don't much care for large bodies of people collected together. Everyone knows that audiences vary enormously; it's a mistake to care too much about them. The thing one should be concerned with is whether the performance has expressed what one set out to express in writing the play. It sometimes does.”
“I canâ€™t tell you. I canâ€™t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that Iâ€™ve lost you, Iâ€™ve lost everything.”
“..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.429, Vintage

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