"One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own."

-- Dacia Maraini

#Writing Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.”
“Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”
“A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.”
“You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.”
“You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.”
“The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.”
“It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. Â Â Â Â â€œWhether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.”
“Perhaps the most typically American place in America.”

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