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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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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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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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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
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"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."
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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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"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
"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
"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."
Mistake
"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
"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
Sympathy
"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
"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."
Work
"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
Life
"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
"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
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