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“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”
“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
“People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.”
“First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point...”
“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
“I find people confusing.”
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
“See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be”
“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there...”
“You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back”
“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”
“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”
“Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”
