"Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You canâ€™t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe theyâ€™re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they donâ€™t want you to see."

-- Carol Rifka Brunt

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination”
“I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.”
“In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.”
“I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.”
“The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.”
“A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?”
“You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.447, Canongate Books
“A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”

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