“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
“Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.”
“We are cruel enough without meaning to be.”
“The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give.”
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
“He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.”