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Roddy Doyle

"Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."

Roddy Doyle, irish Novelist
People, Books, Doubt
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"Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author
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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist
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Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

C. S. Lewis, British Author
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Donna Grant

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet
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