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She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so muc...

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She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, ...

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying ...

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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money...

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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three condi...

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Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the...

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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowd...

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Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from...

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George FriedmanThe Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

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There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end.

There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the hig...

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There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion...

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When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the gl...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to ...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to ...

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H. G. WellsThe Island of Dr. Moreau

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...

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Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which me...

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... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone y...

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas du...

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To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is a brief madness.

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your min...

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Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive inten...

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Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an ac...

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Not my daughter, you bitch!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations.” said Hermione. “Don’t pretend you didn’t see him. He was...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or ra...

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Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

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If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I woul...

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking go...

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Angry people are not always wise.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

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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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