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Tough Quotes (page 5)

Charles Bukowski quote: "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm..."
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him. Charles Bukowski
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."Waiting for perfect love?"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for. Haruki Murakami
J. D. Salinger quote: "Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them..."
Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. J. D. Salinger
He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars.The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. James Patterson
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive. John Steinbeck
That's not what justice is," the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. "That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it? Joseph Heller
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected.Finally, you just do it because you happen to... Natalie Goldberg
Taylor Swift quote: "Life is a tough crowd."
Life is a tough crowd. Taylor Swift
Maya Angelou quote: "Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and..."
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. Maya Angelou
As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I... Christopher Hitchens
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "There were actually very few men who could face reality when..."
There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough. Ursula K. Le Guin
Maya Angelou quote: "The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender..."
The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. Maya Angelou
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. Charles Bukowski
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me nave or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin
For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget and the long to remember, lost themselves for an instant, the length of time it took the cigarette to burn, an instant in which time was frozen and yet all times in Spanish history were concentrated, all the cruelty and the broken dreams, and in that "night of the soul" the smokers recognized each other, unsurprised, and embraced. The spirals of smoke were the embrace. Roberto Bolano

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