“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
Source: Gone with the Wind
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“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
“…jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“You always do that. Make all the questions harder.
I make them truer.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
“Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.”
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se,
quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se,
quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
III, line 152-3.
Variant translations:
Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous.
Wretched poverty offers nothing harsher than this: it makes men ridiculous.
Satires, Satire III
“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”
Amy Goodman (1957) American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author
Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071030_for_whom_the_bells_palsy_tolls/For (referring to her fall 2007 bout of Bell's Palsy).
“[L]eaving home is hard, and the social distance of wealth makes it even harder.”
Jamelle Bouie (1987) American columnist and political correspondent
About Richard Sherman's statements in defense of DeSean Jackson, who was cut from the Philadelphia Eagles amid reports of gang ties.
Down and Out, 2014