I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.


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Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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Grace changes us and change is painful".
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I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
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I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.
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I can smell the sin on your breath.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
STANLEY MARCUS
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, yo...
MARCUS GARVEY
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you h...
MARCUS GARVEY
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself g...
MARCUS AURELIUS
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
MARCUS AURELIUS
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS