“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”
Tim Winton book Cloudstreet
Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
“[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.”
In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908), page 292
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