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“When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.”

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Book:Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern

Source: Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern

“Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”

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Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.”

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Author:Deborah Reber

“Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.”

Conditions Serious Painful

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.”

Giving Film Comedy Serious Distance Painful

Author:Alexander Payne

“Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.”

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Author:Alistair Beaton