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• The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Volunteer, Desert, Reason

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• The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  Jon Krakauer

  Strong, Blow, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 27, 2012

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• He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Lambs, Haughty

  J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.89, Kregel Publications

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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

  Audre Lorde

  Years, Wind, Two

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

  David Foster Wallace

  Smell, Doctors, Ugly

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• In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she's impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn't it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dog, Mean, Tired

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• Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Relationship, Dream, Action

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880.

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• Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

  Joseph Simmons

  Nice, Heart, Abuse

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• If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

  Dave Eggers

  Air, Space, Want

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

  P. D. James

  Children, Brave, Secret

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.20, Vintage

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• Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

  Benjamin Booker

  Stuff I Like, Influence, Vulnerable

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• If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.

  Malina Suliman

  People, Risk, Alive

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with itshard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it--the Bovary syndrome.

  Angela Carter

  Reality, Echoes, Light

  Angela Carter (2016). “Fireworks”, p.54, Random House

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• Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Paris, Six

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

  Brent Spiner

  Hollywood, Stories, Facts

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• When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

  Isaac Asimov

  Eye, Men, Rocks

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• Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.

  David Elkind

  Children, Past, Support

  David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

  Peter Doig

  Trinidad

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

  Gunter Brus

  Boys, Echoes, Experts

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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