- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
- Braver
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020