"I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other."

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Source : Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.38, Hachette UK

Cees Nooteboom

#Life Quotes #People Quotes #Coward Quotes

“Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.”
“I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.”
“I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.”
“Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.”
“Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.”
“I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.”
“The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.”

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