"I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES."

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Aleksandar Hemon

#Pain Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Labels Quotes

“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”
“Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.”
“Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.”
“I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.”

Source : "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.
“The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.”
“She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.”
“I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.”
“I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.”

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