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How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
American Psycho (2014) 301 -
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.The Meaning Of Life -
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.
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I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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