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indifference Quotes

29 of the best book quotes about indifference
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“JUROR #11: You have sat here and voted guilty with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket.”
Reginald Rose
author
12 Angry Men
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decisions
indifference
guilty
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“JUROR #7: Supposin’ we take five minutes? So what? Let’s take an hour. The ball game doesn’t start till eight o’clock.”
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“We are no longer untroubled—we are indifferent.”
Paul Bäumer
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“Still, to my mind he overdid it, and I’d have liked to have a chance of explaining to him, in a quite friendly, almost affectionate way, that I have never been able really to regret anything in all my life. I’ve always been far too much absorbed in the present moment, or the immediate future, to think back.”
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“Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.”
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“I told him I was quite prepared to go; but really I didn’t care much one way or the other. He then asked if a ‘change of life,’ as he called it, didn’t appeal to me, and I answered that one never changed his way of life; one life was as good as another, and my present one suited me quite well.”
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“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.”
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“A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything but that I didn’t think so.”
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“And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.”
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“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality.”
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“I don’t know where you picked up that slacker attitude, but you certainly didn’t learn it at home. Probably from the bad influences up here.”
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“How sweet to be able to disdain, when most of us are glad to say, ‘Thank you!’ I seem to hear it. ‘No sir- I’m your better.‘”
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“‘Of course, we knew something was going on,’ Aziraphale said. ‘But one somehow imagines this sort of thing happening in America. They go in for that sort of thing over there.‘”
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“He was so pleased that he was not going to let anybody share a grain of his pleasure. His father had praised him. They must think that he was perfectly indifferent.”
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“Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.”
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“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. ‘Who cares?’”
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“We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment.”
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“You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool.”
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“What the insane Father required was blood and misery; he was indifferent as to who furnished it.”
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“Aw, Brick, you—BREAK MY HEART! ”
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“If they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung.”
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“Exactly what I’m trying to do here with you now: to make you responsible young men and young ladies. But you, you prefer to play with bugs. You refuse to study your arithmetic, and you prefer writing slanted sentences instead of straight ones. Does that make any sense?”
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“One corner of his mouth lifts in amusement, then pulls back in confusion before coming to rest on indifference.”
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“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care. So what if you weren’t ‘black’ in your country? You’re in America now.”
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“It was against the rules to remain indifferent to it.”
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“There’s only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.”
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“I don’t care.”
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“Familiarity breeds indifference.”
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“Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. What delights me is the confusion, the height, the indifference, and the fury.”

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