“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed
Source: The Wanting Seed
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5
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