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“Worry is a waste of emotional reserves.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's...” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“During the 60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is...” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to...” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.” Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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