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Rob Payne Quotes

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Rob Payne is a Canadian novelist.

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I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Working Class Zero (2003)

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.

Working Class Zero (2003)

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

Working Class Zero (2003)

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

Working Class Zero (2003)

"I wonder what the difference is between love and lust."

Working Class Zero (2003)

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

Working Class Zero (2003)

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.

Working Class Zero (2003)

I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.

Working Class Zero (2003)

Being really poor is frightening, and draining, but I got through it.

Working Class Zero (2003)

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Working Class Zero (2003)

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

Working Class Zero (2003)

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

Working Class Zero (2003)

My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.

Working Class Zero (2003)

Its always good to have a theme.

Working Class Zero (2003)

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Working Class Zero (2003)

"Fine. Your oatmeal spread in the fridge would go too, but it's already been opened. That stuff was disgusting."
"Jay, thats my facial scrub."

Working Class Zero (2003)

Being unique is highly over rated.

Working Class Zero (2003)

If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.

Working Class Zero (2003)

In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.

Working Class Zero (2003)

It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

Working Class Zero (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rob Payne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.