“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

— Nora Roberts

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American romance writer 1950

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.”

Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture (2007)

“I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

Source: THE INFERNO ** UNDER FIRE ** LIGHT

“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“You need systems. You need checklists. You need … things in place to keep people from making mistakes. Left to their own devices, people will screw up on a regular basis.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #207, July 1st, 2009 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/207
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s

“It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”

Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Fragment 110
Variant translation: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Numbered fragments

“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Source: The Great Gatsby