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• It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

  Harlan Coben

  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

  George Eliot

  Conceited, Thinking, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.382, George Eliot

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• Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom.

  Judy Blundell

  Party, Thinking, Amy

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• Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Trying, Needs

  Song: I Don't Want To Change The World

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• Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. “I do what I can.” Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. “You are a brave man.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

  Cameron Dokey

  Father, Thinking, Arrows

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Fire, Hands

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.220, Macmillan

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• So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Pride, Self

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Self, Caught

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.316, Zondervan

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• She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Selfish

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

  John Green

  Children, Sick, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.110, Penguin

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• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Heart, Fate

  "The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. "I do," I say. "I need you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, White, Self

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• He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

  Melina Marchetta

  Teacher, Animal, Voice

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• Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Destiny, Men, Pay

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.159, Prestwick House Inc

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cutting, Trying, Wicked

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• In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

  Julian Barnes

  Ambition, Reality, Self

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• It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

  Ivo Andric

  Compassion, People, Forgive Me

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• Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tools, Done, Fear Of Failure

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

  Gary Paulsen

  Hurt, Dark, Self

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

  Franny Billingsley

  Missing, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.106, A&C Black

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• Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

  William Faulkner

  Looks, Aghast, Madness

  William Faulkner (1936). “Absalom, Absalom!”, Random House (NY)

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• No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Confused, Kissing

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