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“I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don't bear his autograph.”

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Author:Natalya Vorobyova

“I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some people in that situation would have crumbled, some would have cried, but I’d emotionally disconnected from life a long time ago. For that, I had to thank the skeletal bitch on the floor, with her greedy rodent soul and her short-tempered ape-mate in the kitchen. If anything, her death was a belated answer to old prayers, with a bit of an unexpected mess.”

Death Mother Hate Bitter Zombies

Book:Zero Day

Source: Zero Day

“Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.”

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Author:Coco J. Ginger

“I jumped up when I saw Frey, but Bjern got there first, grabbing her cheeks and forcing her lips up to his. She spluttered, but he only caught the back of her head and dragged her against him, and she finally melted, her hands grasping the sleeves of his shirt. “Yeah, no worries,” Sig said loudly, rolling his eyes. “We were the ones who saved you, but go ahead and try to eat Bjern’s face. That makes sense.”

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Book:A World of Lost Words

Source: A World of Lost Words

“Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

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Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”

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Author:Anatole France

“I don't see the point in being bitter.”

Author:Shayne Ward

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.”

Has Beens Young Memories Regard Bitter

Author:Irving Kristol

“We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.”

Author:Eric Butterworth

“So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.”

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Book:Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)

Source: Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.”

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Author:Ray William Johnson

“If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.”

Ifs Doe Strong Drink Bitter Cups Happier Days

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.”

Knows Giving Jobs Artist Song Grows Watches Fine Involved Give Me Excuse Credit Bitter Exposure

Author:Rico Love

“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”

Sometimes Certain Events Bitter

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

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Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.”

Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Wounds Bitter Hopefully Denial Pace

Book:The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Source: The First Day of the Rest of My Life

“I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.”

People Strong Education Teaching Bitter Bitterness Latent I Am Strong

Author:Y. C. James Yen

“You've got to take the sour with the bitter.”

Funny Stupid Bitter Sour

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.”

Sweet Bears Medicine Bitter

Author:Ovid

“Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.”

Heart Grief Fate Wounds Bitter Generous Insult Distress Jest Blockheads Generous Heart

Book:The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

“Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.”

Bitter Greek Satire

Author:John Dryden

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

Moral Tree Sweet Offers Fruit Bitter Spots Apples Rising Melancholy Weed Ruined Cellars Chimneys Vicissitudes Apple Trees Bitter Sweet

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.”

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Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.”

Fortune Bitter Cups Drains Dregs

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”

World Want Desire Sweet Glad Bitter Good And Bad Briars

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.”

Results Diversity Concepts Gains Bitter Tension Honour Perpetual Strife Fragmentation

Author:Earl Warren

“History -- its what those bitter old men write.”

Men Writing History Bitter Old Man

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.”

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Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”

Soul Enough Light Lying Night Heaven Black Memories Behinds Hell Sea Refuse Bitter My Soul Dawn Sand Consolation Heaven And Hell Enough Love

Author:Madison Cawein

“Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.”

Bitter Cake Jelly

Author:Lady Gaga

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.”

Ifs Games Hollywood Down And Bitter Sat

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”

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Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”

Ifs Thinking Men Young Turns Choices Angry Bitter Young Man

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.”

Ifs Felt Victory Defeat Bitter Mma

Author:Anderson Silva

“Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.”

Littles Doe Sometimes Faces Suffering Loss Teach Bitter Persist Cynic

Author:Grace Slick

“Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.”

Ignorance Bitter Republic Antagonism Republicanism

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Soul Life Is Purpose Strong Grows Liberty Struggle Pride Sells Bitter Your Soul Manifest You Choose Tinsel

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.”

People Thinking Real Joy Walks Bitter Granted Disability Disabled Take Nothing For Granted

Author:Teri Garr

“Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.”

Giving Choices Growing Bitter Uncomfortable

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”

“Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger.”

Ifs Made Challenges Mistake Break Lucky Tests Treats Stronger Who You Are Bitter Smarter Make Or Break

Author:Donn Moomaw