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Rejection Quotes


"Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you."


"Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want."



"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."


"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."


"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."


"You would hate people if you were like me. If you weren't wanted."



"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"


"Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn't understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory's uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial."



"To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom."


"If you'd rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won't hate you for more than a day. Maybe two."


"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."


"I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist."


"A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby."
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