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doing nothing Quotes

Six of the best book quotes about doing nothing
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“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.”
Frantz Fanon
author
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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“People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them having them! Yes, until there’s a war. That’s when adventure becomes available to the masses!”
Tom Wingfield
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“And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.”
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“But if there’s anything in which I shine, ‘T is in arranging all my friends’ affairs, Not having, of my own, domestic cares”
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″‘I know you did something. I can always tell. Now, what happened?’ ‘Nothing, Mom. I didn’t do anything.‘”
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″...if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.”

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