"Love's an excuse to get hurt."

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Source : "Song: Lover I Don't Have to Love ("Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground")". 2002.

Conor Oberst

#Hurt Quotes #Hurt Feelings Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.”
“By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.”
“If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.”
“But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”
“I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.”
“Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.”

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