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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
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"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
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"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
Sympathy
"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
Life
"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."
Mistake
"Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s."
Silly
"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi."
People
"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
Advice
"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
Change
"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."
Act
"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
Love
"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."
Work
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