#painful

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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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

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Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

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I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. ↗

— Regis Philbin

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There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

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I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful. ↗

— Ali Larter

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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#feeling #investigating #knowing #maybe #not knowing

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. ↗

— Amy Grant

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