“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”
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Swiss writer 1969Related quotes
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Original: La vita di qualcuno, la rendi felice dicendogli sinceramente "ti amo", "mi manchi", dedicandogli attenzioni e trasmettendogli la gioia che provi ogni giorno... per la sua esistenza.
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Excerpt from 2017 Personality Lecture 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U5IHQWSZc
Personality Lectures
“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”
Source: The Bridal Season
“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
The Dresden Files, Proven Guilty (2006)
