“And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.”
"Entre oui et non" in L'Envers et l'endroit (1937), translated as "Between Yes and No", in World Review magazine (March 1950), also quoted in The Artist and Political Vision (1982) by Benjamin R. Barber and Michael J. Gargas McGrath
Context: Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
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Albert Camus209
French author and journalist 1913–1960Related quotes
“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) writer
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 6, “The House on the River” (p. 112)
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Conversation with private secretary John Hay (23 December 1863), describing a dream Lincoln had that evening, in Abraham Lincoln : A History (1890) by John Hay
Posthumous attributions
“In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.”
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
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The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
On nynorsk, from Re: Irish road-signs are now metric http://groups.google.com/group/misc.metric-system/msg/aaa11856a516419a (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Proletariatis Brdzola August 1905, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 376
Contemporary witnesses
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688 <br class="br">Attributed
“Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Context: Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who, incidentally, run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very, very ignorant and really don't know anything.