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Bitter Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.
- Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or…
- People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
More Bitter Quotes
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Francis Bacon
- Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. — Jan Peter Balkenende
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
- I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic… — Drew Barrymore
- I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. — Adele
- There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. — Allen Boyd
- People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you… — Jo Brand
- Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. — Terry Brooks
- Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. — Julie Burchill