Cees Nooteboom Quotes

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Cees Nooteboom

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• I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

  

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  • People
  • Life
  • Coward