Eugene O'Neill quote: “I hate doctors! They'll do anything — anything to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls! What's worse, they…”

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”

Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist

Source: The Singing Detective

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)
Variant: If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

“If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.”

Anu Garg (1967) Indian author

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“If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Source: The Mortal Instruments

“Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“We won’t even know if they've done anything, and so, they'll be dropped wherever the federal government wants to drop them, and they'll disappear into our society. We'll never know, until something bad happens, if we have a terrorist.”

Ken Paxton (1962) American politician

Source: Exclusive — TX AG Ken Paxton on Afghan Refugees: ‘We Don’t Know Whether They’re Vetted’ or ‘Terrorists’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/09/exclusive-tx-ag-ken-paxton-afghan-refugees-we-dont-know-whether-theyre-vetted-terrorists/ (9 September 2021)

“Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Shadows

“people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

“I hate doctors! They'll do anything — anything to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls! What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell!”

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