“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
Source: Room
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Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969Related quotes
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Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“People want to get better, but they don't want to change.”
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 687.
Context: A wise psychiatrist once said to me, "People want to get better, but they don't want to change." But I would propose that it is only by allowing people born with horizontal identities not to change that one allows them to get better. Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.
“The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.”
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Main Street (1920)
Context: I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we’re wiser than you!' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now— and we're going to try our hands at it.
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
From Sex book
Variant: A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
MUNICH, February 10, 2007. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/02/a50c8a12-b6a8-44ad-92dd-58183e78a032.html
2006- 2010
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13
