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"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet."
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"People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why."

"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."

"Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of."

"Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?"

"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."

"No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction."

"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness."
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