„All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.“

— Tennessee Williams

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„I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together“
— Ernest Hemingway
„People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.“
— Heraclitus