I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect … - Cees Nooteboom - Quotesmemo.com

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He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

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Cees Nooteboom

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Conformists, Coward, Cowards, Life, Moneygrubbers, People

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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?

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Through men. . . you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

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He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

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