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What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.


Mary Karr


#hope #youth #youth

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.


Margaret Atwood


#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage "That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury


J.R. Ward


#comedy #dark #view-point #comedy

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.


Steve Maraboli


#goals #happiness #inspiration #life #motivation

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]


Anna Quindlen


#creativity #originality #point-of-view #uniqueness #writing

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.


Eric Hoffer


#disappointment #expectation #hope #much #sort

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.


George Carlin


#disillusionment #idealism #disappointment

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.


Toba Beta


#bitterness #disappointment #take-root #vengeance #disappointment

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.


Tonya Hurley


#expectations #ghostgirl #disappointment

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.


Eliza Tabor Stephenson


#disappointment