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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

~Barry Hannah

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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

~Bela Lugosi

Topics: Agony Bear Biological Blood Bloody Born Horror Kind Race Suffering Thing Very Who Women Women Are

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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

~Ben Hecht

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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Agony Blunder Grief Indulgence Instant Life

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As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

~Britt Ekland

Topics: Agony Away Bubble Every Every Single Time Fine Focused Fright Go Goes Happy Know Little Never Once Single Single Time Stage Stage Fright Stay Stay Focused Time Waiting Wings

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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Agony Almost Joy Me Prosperity Real Security Seems Unlike

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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

~Carlton Fisk

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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Advance Agony Any Discovery Exploration Go Had Kind Me Novel Plot Rate Set Through Want Why Would Writing

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I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Agony Being Compared Doing Dread Every Grown-Up Job Joy Larger Means Part Private Promotion Task Writing

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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

~Clara Schumann

Topics: After Agony Because Beforehand Cannot Concert Days Fail Fear Give Me Memory Other Piece Play Single Terror Threatens Which

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