Pathetic, naive, like small noisy tantrums.
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On the e-book Poets Against the War.
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Interview with The Daily Telegraph promoting his book The Ode Most Travelled.Stephen Fry
“‘Naive’ is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly—but not naive.”
“I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive.”
“This is why I have no politics,” said Darvin. “I can’t think in those terms.”Ken MacLeod
Hindu child brides in India are flogged, and sometimes burned alive, if the pathetic dowry they bring is judged to be too small.
Christopher Hitchens
Naive you are
if you believe
life favours those
who aren't naive.Piet Hein
I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.
Kurt Donald Cobain
[Nelson, about Pru] She had complained for years about living with his mother and Ronnie and about his dead-end job babysitting these pathetic dysfunctionals, boosting his own ego at their expense, caring more about them than he did about his own wife and children, but what it boiled down to in his baffled mind was something she once shouted, her green eyes bright as broken glass in her reddened face: My life with you is too small. Too small. As if being a greaseball lawyer's input organiser and easy lay was bigger. But the size of a life is how you feel about it.
John Updike
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