Peter Cameron Short Quotes

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I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.

Peter Cameron
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

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Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

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It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

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I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

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I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

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I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

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I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

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I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

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I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing—working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

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Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said.

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I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

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