You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.
We speak the truth because we live in truth.
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Unknown
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
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George Orwell
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.
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Voltaire
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the...
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Wendell Berry
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
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Lian Hearn
More Quotes By Nick Hornby
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign,...
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
