A Quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Anything Bear Brutal Disposable Everyone Hard Lesson People Terrible

Quote Author

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German - Director
May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982

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Everyone wants to talk about terrible breakups. Breakups are horrible, they're relatable, and people do them badly. Everyone has a story of a terrible breakup.

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Paul Feig

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Ryan Howard

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

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