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What there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other
people
are concerned — even the
people
who love you — and that is all right. It can be lived with.
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Some
people
want to be bank presidents. Other
people
want to rob banks.
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People
surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. I mean, do you actually realize how much adult conversation is spent on this fuckin business? Facts treated like they were opinions just for the simple purpose of talking about it longer? Some
people
might think that's interesting, bub, but I'll tell you. It's romanticizing a goddamn rock by calling it a mountain range to me.
People
waste a helluva lot of time they could be putting to useful purposes. This is a game. See it and forget about it.
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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most
people
off after two sentences.
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Things happen when
people
are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other
peoples
' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
Richard Ford
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
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Born:
February 16, 1944
(age 81)
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