“Men get laid, but women get screwed.”
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.