"Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient."

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Source : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.

BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Emotion Quotes #Pity Quotes

“There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. Iâ€™m a martial artist. I donâ€™t train for a fight. I train for myself. Iâ€™m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.”
“I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.”
“In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.”
“The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.”
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2012). “Sarah Canary”, p.49, Hachette UK
“A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me."”
“My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's where it came from. I always come out of it thinking, Okay, that got it all outta me. The next one's gonna be nice and simple, and it's not gonna scare me, and that never seems to happen.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

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