"The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you."

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Source : Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

Mat Johnson

#Real Quotes #Problem Quotes #Sociopath Quotes

“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”
“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”
“It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germanyâ€¦ Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.”
“I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.”
“Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.”
“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.”
“Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.”
“The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.”

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