“People are basically irritating. Myself included. ”
“It is really irritating to work with irritating people”
“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and what makes them tick are surprisingly useless.”
“And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.”
“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”
“It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God.”