“I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.”

—  Mickey Spillane, book The Big Kill

Source: The Big Kill

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American writer 1918–2006

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