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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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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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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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"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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"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."
Humanity
"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them."
Mindset
"Half my life is an act of revision."
Life
"It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules."
Society
"Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?"
Memory
"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."
Fate
"For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself, he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up."
Life
"Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away."
Society
"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."
Imagination
"In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they're foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity."
Society
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