The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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JeanPaul Sartre
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Alain De Botton
Girls, " their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.
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Anna Godbersen
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
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Stefan Molyneux
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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