Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.

Gretchen McNeil

Tags: life easy people regret sorry suckers

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You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...

Esther Verhoef

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It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.

Jean Cocteau

Tags: humor people extraordinary

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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett

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History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: history people

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In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

Thomas Harris

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The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Mohammed Naseehu Ali

Tags: life inspirational happiness humanity people

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Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.

Carroll Bryant

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But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Diana Wynne Jones

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Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Tags: truth people good facade false-hope

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