"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them."

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Source : 1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.

Susan Sontag

#Envy Quotes #People Quotes #Attention Quotes

“One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.”
“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”
“I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.”
“Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.”
“No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.”
“By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.”
“Beauty is the mind, heart and balls of the person seeking to be beautiful.”

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