"Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others"

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Source : Roland Merullo (2011). “The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel”, p.2, Crown

Roland Merullo

#Hurt Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.”
“Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.”
“The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!”
“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
“In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.”
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
“I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.”

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