"extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery."

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Dodie Smith

#Misery Quotes #Extremes Quotes

“How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.”
“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.”
“You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through itâ€¦and you hope for a better day for the next generation.”
“Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.”
“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.186, Counterpoint
“Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?”

Source : Sena Jeter Naslund (2009). “Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel”, p.54, Harper Collins
“None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time”

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