People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.
Josephine HumphreysTags: life world people protection josephine-humphreys rich-in-love
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Joyce Carol OatesEven intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
Roy Blount Jr.Tags: people rationality intellectuals
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
Lionel ShriverTags: people awkwardness sociability
Because that was the problem, really, wasn’t it, with being human? You couldn’t just be, couldn’t just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, collaborate, cohabiate. You had to corroborate. Copulate. You had to co-this, co-that, co—bloody-everything, and if you weren’t co-operating you were operating with the co, which was a declaration less of independence than of relativity. You could only really exist in relation to others.
Deborah Copaken KoganTags: people
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
Deb CalettiTags: people loneliness lonely feel
Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.
Deb CalettiTags: world people shallow depth growing preserve bigger
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
Deb CalettiTags: life friends love family people lovable hugs
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
Deb CalettiTags: strength people manipulation powerful pity feel sorry smarts
People are secretive when they have secrets.
Deb CalettiTags: deception people secrets secretive
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