"If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind."

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Source : Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburō Ōe (1969). “A Personal Matter”, p.56, Grove Press

Kenzaburo Oe

#Hangover Quotes #Agony Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.”
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
“Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.”

Source : "Murder, they wrote" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2005.
“We [Paramore] are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that our crowd and the audience that comes to our shows brings out of us. Different people bring different sides out of each other, and for sure our fans bring out the most hyper and ridiculous side of us because we get so psyched to see everyone when we're on stage.”
“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.43, Penguin
“I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.”
“He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You're dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.”
“The laws of decency enforce themselves.”

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