“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”
— Jeff Lindsay, book Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952Related quotes
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Context: I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.
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Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
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