Cormac McCarthy
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away."
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Meanness
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Aristotle
Philosopher
"Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else."
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty."
Reynolds Price
Novelist
"I've met little meanness, wherever I went."
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"I guess there's just a meanness in this world"
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"Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it."
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