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• Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Writing, Joy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

  Leigh Hunt

  Quality, Wit And Humor, Ancient

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Selections from the English poets”

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• Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Suffering, Vision

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Acting, Actors, Drudgery

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

  Erica Jong

  Boredom, Flying, Fifty

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.9, Penguin

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• Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

  Rebecca West

  Wise, Dog, Writing

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• "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, People

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• Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Art, Parent, Invention

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2014). “The Critic”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Effort, Sailing

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Determination, Struggle, Hard Work

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.158, Penguin

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• In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Character, Long Ago, Numbers

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

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• There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

  Michael Palin

  Land, Volunteer, Three

  "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". Documentary, 1989.

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• Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

  Bertrand Russell

  Numbers, Religion, World

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• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Fall, Opposites

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• I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

  Colin Greenwood

  Play, Alcohol, Pressure

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• If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

  David Chipperfield

  Simple, Quality, Looks

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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• It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

  Socrates

  Men, May, Limits

  "Memorabilia" by Xenophon, 3.7.8,

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

  Robert Scoble

  Looks, Done, Values

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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Guitar, Feelings

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• If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Dying, Looks

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• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

  Fred Hoyle

  Powerful, Taken, Ideas

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• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Giving, Joy

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• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Dream, Struggle

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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