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“A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.”

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“She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.”

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Book:The Mayor of Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge

“It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always…a disappointment.”

Disappointment Imperfection Explanations

Book:I Knew You'd Be Lovely: Stories

Source: I Knew You'd Be Lovely: Stories

“I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.”

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Book:Night of Cake & Puppets

Source: Night of Cake & Puppets

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let's say it's so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”

Writing Imagination Heartbreak Disappointment Writers Creative Process Trade In

Book:The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

Source: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed." "That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

Character Suffering Disappointment

Author:Betty Smith

“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments in life, that's where the challenge is and the uniqueness. I was offering her sympathy.”

Loss Disappointment Pity Sympathy

Book:Incident at Badamya

Source: Incident at Badamya

“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”

Faith Disappointment Cynicism Disillusionment Sovereignty Of God

Book:The Mayor of Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge

“The ones who move gently through the world leave deeper footprints than the ones who shout.”

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Author:Lawrence Nault

“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.”

Life Disappointment

Book:The End Of Mr. Y

Source: The End Of Mr. Y

“Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.”

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Book:Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe