193 Quotes About Cruel

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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    Oh,” said Hazel, “they reacted just about the way the grownups did. They just looked at it and didn’t say anything, just moved on to see what the next thing was.”“What was the next thing?”“It was an iron chair a man had been roasted alive in,” said Crosby. “He was roasted for murdering his son.”“Only, after they roasted him,” Hazel recalled blandly, “they found out he hadn’t murdered his son after all.

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  • Author T.S. Eliot
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    Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks."Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks)"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,And youth is cruel, and has no remorseAnd smiles at situations which it cannot see."I smile, of course,And go on drinking tea.

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  • Author Margaret Way
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    The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

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