"The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives."

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Source : Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

Mahmoud Darwish

#Hurt Quotes #Taught Quotes #Deceiving Quotes

“There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.”
“The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007
“Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.”
“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.”

Source : Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2007.
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
“I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.”

Source : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
“I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2009). “The Silver Door”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.
“You know, things come up and we have those conversations. I feel that they're all in a kind of similar state, which is that we all keep working on them, in house, until we feel like it's ready and then it goes from being something that were working on to ready very quickly.”

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