“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”

— Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

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Indian novelist, essayist 1961

Edmund Clerihew Bentley book Trent's Own Case

Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"

“For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife.”

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife. The tribe exists at all times in a state of mobilization for war against its neighbors. The slightest incident, or often merely a desire to increase prestige, is enough to set off a skirmish, and in such circumstances hatred against external enemies must be unremitting.<!-- p. 97

“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”

Katherine Paterson Preacher's Boy

Source: Preacher's Boy

“Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this." But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”

Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) American historian, physicist and philosopher

Thomas Kuhn (1970) in Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?, edited by [Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave, Criticism and the growth of knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1970, 0521096235, 7]