“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”

— Bill Watterson

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American comic artist 1958

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

“People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.”

Jason Statham (1967) English actor, film producer, martial artist and former diver

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher

a comment on Facebook (June 2012) http://www.facebook.com/julia.galef/posts/10100387951009862

“It’s fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

Salon interview (1996)
Context: It’s fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it. One of the things any great children’s writer will tell you is that children like it if in books designed for their age group there is a vocabulary just slightly bigger than theirs. So they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them. If you describe a small girl in a story as “loquacious,” it works so much better than “talkative.” And then some little girl will read the book and her sister will be shooting her mouth off and she will say to her sister, “Don't be so loquacious.” It is a whole new weapon in her arsenal.