Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted

Richard Yates's Popular Quotes

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

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If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

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Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

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He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that d…

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No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

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Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

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And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

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Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

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if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

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