I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall...
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Unknown
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
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Shannon L. Alder
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic! '" (2009)]
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Dylan Moran
There are always loose ends in real life.
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Robert Galbraith
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
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Michel Houellebecq
More Quotes By John Taliaferro
John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.
Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
