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Budd Schulberg1
American novelist and screenwriter 1914–2009Related quotes
“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”
Samuel R. Delany book Triton
Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 54)
“Everyone always believes everything nasty of everyone else, and especially if it's a lie.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Vegmey Hansdóttir
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
“That’s how a police state works - everyone thinks everyone else is the police.”
Trevor Noah book Born a Crime
page 25
Born a Crime
“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.”
Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book II, Chapter 1, p. 149
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
“Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.”
George Orwell book Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia (1938)