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“When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.”
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“Sitting next to a woman at a dinner party recently, she had explained how stifling she found the attitude in her hometown. 'On the [Danish] west coast, anyone who even slightly broke with convention, or or showed that they had any ambition, was frowned upon,' she told me. 'People really didn't like it. Everyone knew your business, everyone had an opinion about what you should be doing. I had to get away. I came to Copenhagen as soon as I could, and don't often go back.' It is common to have such feelings about one's hometown, I suppose, but they do often seem to be particularly keenly felt by people from Jutland.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?” —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Idle minds who’ll hardly sleep till they creep up on their victims, and peep out something deep for their cheap talk, should weep for themselves.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“What are you doing?'
'Waiting,' Amren said.
'For what?'
'For busybodies to leave us alone.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
'Waiting,' Amren said.
'For what?'
'For busybodies to leave us alone.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
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