#difficult

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

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It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#another #difficult #language #sometimes #well

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#cannot #carry #difficult #difficult times #egypt

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry