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"Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do."
"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."
"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."
"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another"
"Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain."
"How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness."
"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different."
"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
"Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next."
"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
"Tears are words that need to be written."
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
