"My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason."

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Mikhail Lermontov

#Feelings Quotes #Denial Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”
“If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.”
“After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.”
“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.”
“If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.”
“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.”
“I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.”
“People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.”

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