Human Behavior Quotes - Page 10

• History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

  Amy Waldman

  Japan, People, Novelists

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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• Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Looks, Use

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• The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Two, Miracle, Way

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 25, 2011

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• I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Beautiful, Christian, Atheist

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Confused, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Adventure, Back Alleys, Fundamentals

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• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  Yasuhiro Konishi

  Art, Character, Doe

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