“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”
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Janet Fitch 86
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I always wonder.
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“How could you be so damn stupid? How could you do that?”
To Bill Clinton, in front of guests, as reported in U.S. News & World Report https://books.google.com/books?id=Sy0nAQAAIAAJ&q=%22How+could+you+be+so+damn+stupid?+she+demanded.+How+could+you+do+that?%22 (5 February 1996)
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"The Late Show"
("The Late Show" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW5_Wr9sWeY
Late for the Sky (1974)

“How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.”
A characteristic saying of Russell, reported by Aldous Huxley in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated 8 October 1917, as quoted in Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (Routledge, 2013)
1910s

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
Variant: No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
“No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life”