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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling… — Tony Kushner
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm… — Jonathan Franzen
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. — Edward Heath
Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the… — Mark Kurlansky
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! — Charles Dickens
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings… — Mark Epstein
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There… — Jeremy Grantham
If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has… — Nhat Hanh
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to… — Zhuangzi
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs… — Arnold J. Toynbee
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the… — Clare Boothe Luce
Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from… — Frederick Salomon Perls
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had… — Will Oldham
There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is… — Frederick Lenz
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on… — Quentin Crisp
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to… — Emmeline Pankhurst

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