#tolerable

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#decision #director #else #film #final

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. ↗

— Anatole France

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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#best #best way #dealt #eyes #honorable

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#intolerable #label #other #those #tolerance

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #fashion #form #intolerable #months

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#america #been #century #consensus #foreign

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#intolerable #knowing #life #makes #next