“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 257
Paper Towns (2008)
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Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.”
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow
As quoted at page 212 in The Pocket Book of Quips and Quotes http://books.google.de/books?id=jcIWpJdFBkEC&pg=PA212&dq=The+world+is+full+of+willing+people,+some+willing+to+work,+the+rest+willing+to+let+them.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=R9LOUe3UL8mctAbO0oDQCg&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=The%20world%20is%20full%20of%20willing%20people%2C%20some%20willing%20to%20work%2C%20the%20rest%20willing%20to%20let%20them.&f=false (1996) by Rajendra Pillai, Copyright 1996 The Saint Paul Society Bombay, 2nd Print 1999
1950s
Variant: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.
Letter 58
Letters
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”