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• Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

  Adrienne Rich

  Males, Heterosexuality, Way

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Believe, Writing

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• A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Writing, Style, Results

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• I have said no
  To everything, in order to get at myself.
  I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Mud, Moonlight

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Knopf

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• I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Spiritual, Self

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• I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Smell, Age

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• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Mistress, Favors, Young

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

  Greg Behrendt

  Truth, Dating, Trying

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• I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mind, Growth, Scientific Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

  Deb Caletti

  Pain, Crazy, Loss

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

  P. D. James

  Infanticide

  P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Home, Heart, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 14, 2014

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• I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.

  Bob Packwood

  Girl, Sex, Dating

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• To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.

  Bas van Fraassen

  Mean, Science, Reality

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• Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Believe, Persistence

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Destiny, Redirection, Course Correction

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• To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

  Stephen Covey

  Judging, Understanding, Individual

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• What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

  William Shatner

  Risk, Stranger, Born

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

  Dianna Agron

  Sensitive Person, Age, Used

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Nice, People

  "The 700 Club", January 14, 1991.

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• A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

  Paul Bloom

  God, Men, Animal

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• Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Racism

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Respect, Race, Ethnicity

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• To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

  Dave Hunt

  Prayer, Grace, Church

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• I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Three, Able

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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