“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”
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“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”
Jack Kerouac book The Subterraneans
Source: The Subterraneans
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Original: Una delle peggiori categorie di individui è quella che vuole sempre aver ragione sapendo di non averla.
Source: prevale.net
“When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.”
Robert Kagan book Of Paradise and Power
Alternate version: If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
Of Paradise and Power, p. 26
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