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"Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much."
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"She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much."
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"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."
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"I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy."
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"America slept because most Americans preferred it that way."
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"What good were real feelings anyway?"
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"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion."
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"Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth."
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"I was faced more with apathy than opposition."
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"Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?"
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"Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure."
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"Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody."
Judgment


"John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on."
Poetry


"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking."
Wisdom


"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
Silence


"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas."
Belief


"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness."
Art


"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education


"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
Expression


"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
Mortality


"I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something."
Humor
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