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• For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Tears, Reason, Tendencies

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

  Ayn Rand

  Order, Giving, Waiting

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.241, Penguin

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• maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Song, Memories, Ignorance

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Logic, Sole

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Vocabulary, People

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Sadness, Heart

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

  John Wyndham

  Stills, Dependent, Depends

  John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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• I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

  Osamu Dazai

  Summer, Dream, Recovery

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dust, Practice

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Ego, Embarrassing, Slaying

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things”, p.134, Yearling

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• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Past, Men

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• Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

  Ken Green

  Fun, Golf, Games

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• The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Humanity, Principles

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Ignorance, Men, History

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• You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Wife, Mind

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• Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Fall, Down And

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• A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Elements, Might

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• If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Hollywood, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

  Lionel Shriver

  Loving Someone, Remember, Young

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• Honestly, it's really hard improvising and it's really stressful and humiliating at times. You're taking really big swings that potentially are eating up a lot of people's time and resources at set in your attempt to discover something funny.

  Seth Rogen

  Eating, Stressful, Honestly

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.

  Merrill Markoe

  Girl, Running, Boys

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going to see parts that are humiliating as well as parts that they might feel really great about. Take Lucas Samaras again, who made a lot of self-portraits. He makes one self-portrait where he is looking directly into the camera and looks so intense and cool. He says in an interview, "I wanted to present the best version of myself."

  Andrew W.K.

  Thinking, Important, Honest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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