Quotes By Letter: K
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
-Helen Keller
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“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
-Helen Keller
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“My fault, my failure, is not the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.”
-On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...”
-On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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“What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
-On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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“Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
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“Naught blossoms when heart corrupts and mind withers.”
-Chin Kethya
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“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
-Ken Keys
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“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, 'I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,' a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
-The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
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“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and so spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither by work nor at play, neither by day nor by night.”
-The Concept of Dread, Soren Kierkegaard
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“Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation, but from deliberation.”
-The Present Age, Soren Kierkegaard
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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
-The Sickness unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard
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“HANZO: Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest. And like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost... to forget where you came in.”
-Kill Bill Vol. 1 [movie]
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“O-REN: I'm going to say this in English so you know how serious I am. As your leader, I encourage you to -- from time to time and always in a respectful manner, and with the complete knowledge that my decision is final -- to question my logic. If you're unconvinced a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I will promise you, right here and now, no subject will be taboo...except the subject that was just under discussion.
The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative is, I collect your fuckin head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sonsabitches got anything else to say, now's the fuckin time.
I didn't think so. Meeting adjourned.”
-Kill Bill Vol. 1 [movie]
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“THE BRIDE: I'm allowing you to keep your wicked life for one reason and one reason only. So you can tell him, in person, everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy..., by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him, all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know, they'll all soon be as dead as O-REN.”
-Kill Bill Vol. 1 [movie]
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“THE BRIDE: It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.”
-Kill Bill Vol. 1 [movie]
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“There are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard.”
-Kill Bill Vol. 2 [movie]
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“I wish I could remember. I wish memory were a more steady, more physical artifact. It's just a breeze, or a scent barely detected and fading.”
-The Solace Of Leaving Early, Haven Kimmel
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“This is how to bully a man; this is a how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if that doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quickly so that it doesn't fall on you.”
-Girl, Jamaica Kincaid
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
-Stephen King
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“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
-Stephen King
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“Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
-Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
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“Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all of the time, a kind of sweet hurtful ache. She would have died for him.”
-It, Stephen King
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“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”
-It, Stephen King
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