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I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forg...

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As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've ...

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Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the na...

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Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...

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Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildin...

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I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage throu...

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Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I...

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It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentr...

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Joan DidionSouth and West: From a Notebook

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should b...

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...

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She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

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She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...

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You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can e...

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The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed ...

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The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, an...

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That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about ...

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What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and th...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, lik...

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Jonathan TropperOne Last Thing Before I Go

I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what ha...

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Jonathan TropperThis is Where I Leave You

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At som...

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Jonathan TropperThis is Where I Leave You

That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed...

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Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

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Julia CameronThe Artist's Way

Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds hi...

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What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradi...

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Kathleen NorrisThe Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy...

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... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...

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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic...

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Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of ha...

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Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just...

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or ...

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I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If thi...

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Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all t...

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When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

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Luke HainesPost Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when th...

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The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governin...

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, b...

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My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are con...

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Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...

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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which...

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I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and pr...

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Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist tha...

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Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

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Mary StewartThe Last Enchantment

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily reso...

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[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...

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His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the in...

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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because ...

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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bit...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if ...

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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abjec...

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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.

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N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms

If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out o...

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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verba...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he ha...

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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrim...

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because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching ...

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I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's bee...

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I had left my anger somewhere long ago. Put it down on a park bench and walked away. And yet. It had...

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I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole yea...

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Nicole KraussThe History of Love

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is ...

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Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to...

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combinati...

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It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb tr...

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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybod...

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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever...

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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a po...

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She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self i...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces...

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Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear

It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, a...

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I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only ...

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Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear