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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
No one wants advice — only corroboration.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
A crime is something someone else commits.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Strength and success— they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
In the dusk I saw her smile, that incredible female smile. It is called wisdom but it isn't that but rather an understanding that makes wisdom unnecessary.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Sometimes it's great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)