“As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time”
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People Quotes — page 1087 of 5018
“She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die”
“People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.”
“Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”
“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?”
“Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.”
“Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.”
“That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.”
“Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.”
“Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.”
“I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.”
“I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.”
“All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.”
“Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.”
“I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.”
“You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.”
“…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.”
“Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".”