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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Neil Gaiman
Don't you think it's ironic that you have no idea what you're supposed to do, said Verily, and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?
Orson Scott Card
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
George Bernard Shaw
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt Vonnegut
Scientific critics of religion such as Daniel Dennett have been generous enough to point out that apparently useless healing rituals may even have helped people get better, in that we know how important morale can be in aiding the body to fight injury and infection.
Christopher Hitchens
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho
There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
John Green
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.
Gustave Le Bon
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers
C.S. Lewis
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves
Love in its most genuine sense, can only flourish if it is FREE. We, as people, can only flourish if we are free.
Steve Maraboli
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin