“People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
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Doris Lessing 94
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013Related quotes
Part IV, ch. 1
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Context: The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.
John Leguizamo Talks About "Assault on Precinct 13", January 16, 2005, asked whether he would have taken the role if it was merely a remake.
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
Source: Nothing to Lose
Dude, Where's My Country? (2003)
2003
At Apple's 2013 Q1 earnings call http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/tim-cook-on-the-imac-cannibalization-is-a-huge-opportunity-for-us/ (2013-01-23)
iPad sales had been increasing at the expense of Mac sales.
