Bursting Out Quotes

• Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Suicide, Time

  Charles Bukowski, “So You Want To Be A Writer?”

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Bursting, Spite, Ifs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.3, Zondervan

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• if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Mind, Mouths

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.3, Zondervan

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• The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Ties, Errors

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

  Charles Bukowski

  Burning, Sun, Guts

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.4, Zondervan

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• People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

  Kevin Smith

  People, Parent, Atheism

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• Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.

  Benita Valente

  Art, Cheer, Nice

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• . . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .

  Laurie R. King

  Spring, Winter, Gun

  Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.296, Macmillan

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• I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Space, Darkness

  D. H. Lawrence (2004). “Sons and Lovers”, p.191, online-ebooks.info

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• The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of "Why is this person bursting out into song?" because the whole thing is sung.

  Lea Salonga

  Song, Nice, Feelings

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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