Difficult Quotes

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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury
Itâ€™s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around,… — Gabrielle Zevin
The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult… — Maria V. Snyder
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyâ€¦ I have never in my life envied a human… — Theodore Roosevelt
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's… — Paulo Coelho
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of… — Paulo Coelho
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we… — Philippa Gregory
Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. — John Green
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So â€” after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating â€”' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer
he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff
It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This… — Sam Harris
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. — Oscar Wilde
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film… — Sebastian Barry
Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit… — Connie Willis
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if… — Charles Bukowski
About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no… — James Frey
And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same. — John Green

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