“Only the bad attempt to injure the good. Good men are at peace among themselves; bad ones are equally mischievous to the good and to one another.”
~ Seneca.
Jenny Diski on People
Mick Carman reckons that orangs are closer to humans than gorillas or chimps; he doesn’t care what anyone says. I’m delighted to hear this, more grist for my fiction mill. But why? Because they’re lazy, sullen and devious, if I see what he means. Oh, yes, I do see.
~ Jenny Diski
LRB – https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n10/jenny-diski/diary
Paul Theroux on Knowing People
I thought of Henry James who once said, “Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
~ Paul Theroux
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180613-paul-theroux-on-travel-and-travel-writing
Mister Rogers on People
Mister Rogers, he of the neighborhood, always said that the worst type of human beings were the ones who made you feel “less than.”
~ Maureen Dowd / NYT, August 22, 2020
Noah Kalina on Photographers
Most photographers are horrible people…
Noah Kalina
Gary Oldman on People
“Fuck ’em.” Shortest prayer in the world.
~ Gary Oldman / Esquire, December 16th 2011
Jim Harrison on Helping People
“I’m always having a man in desperate straits trying to help somebody else out with no apparent success, because nobody can be helped by anybody.”
~ Jim Harrison