It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.
It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like my kind of town and I wanna be a part of it in it; the kind of...
We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what they should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereot...
You don't sound like a librarian, she said.I'm on vacation, Jacqueline laughed. Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, b...
Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurpr...
The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to...
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Sal...
Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short.
Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with co...
No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They’d rather die. It’s so uncool to be early.
Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal m...
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker.
Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.
A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the poi...
white is not always light and black is not always dark.
It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.
Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
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