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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs."
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"I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known."
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"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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"Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me."
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
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"One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point."
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"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
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"I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised."
Politics
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
Philosophy
"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."
Science
"Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that."
Conflict
"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
Friendship
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
Critique
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
Philosophy
"This is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life."
Conflict
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