But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
V. S. Naipaul
PeopleSometimesWriteHardPainful
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Randa Haines
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
Jack Henry Abbott
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Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.
Faye Dunaway
WorkYouMatterSalvationPainful
As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.
Jennifer Hyman
GrowthTeamCompanyPainfulSeen
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
TruthNeverPainfulMayWholeOnly
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
Robert B. Parker
EnoughSayWritePainfulJustHad
I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.
Molly Shannon
PainfulUsedGetGuysReally
Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes
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I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.
Dawn Steel
GoodWomenClimbBadLittlePainful
But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
Bryan Ferry
NowWritePainfulBecauseMuchToo
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
Arthur Smith
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When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.
Shawn Colvin
YouWonderKnowPainfulIndustry
I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
Maria Semple
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That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
Kurt Vile
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The type of IBS I am prone to is the constipation type, where I get trapped wind and can get sharp painful spasms in my intestines as well as having sluggish bowels.
Greg Rutherford
I AmWindTrappedPainfulSharpGet
Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.
Daveed Diggs
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
Ray Dalio
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
Manolo Blahnik
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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