Quote by Willa Cather
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, a

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou, PBS, 1988 March 28th

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. – David T. Wolf

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