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"It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either."
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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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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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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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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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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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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."
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"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."
America

"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."
Dying

"You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound."
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"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."
Amusement

"Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on."
Want

"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
Society

"If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character."
Character

"Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises."
Love

"Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it."
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"Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative."
Society
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