“The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.”
Quotations and text from the Demon Princes novels, The Book of Dreams
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World Bank Hearing, May 22, 2007 http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr052307.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZdba8hDDY
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Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5