"All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome"

-- Ben Jonson

#Speech Quotes #Harsh Quotes #Discourse Quotes

“It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?”
“Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.”
“I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin
“I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise.”
“Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.”
“Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.”
“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
“Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.”

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