Hendrik Groen quote: "Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier than it is: sad, grim, and funny all at once."

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KELLY JONES

I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a c...
TUCKER ELLIOT

Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once ...
LAUREN HAMMOND

I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’...
HENRY MILLER

I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough...
TAHEREH MAFI

America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not
FEE SCOTT

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance....
SUZANNE COLLINS

If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. ...
RACHEL VINCENT

I spent a lot of last night being moody and grim.
I’m a vampire. We’re allowed to do that. ...
GARON WHITED

Ela did you just fart? Because you just blew me away.
MARK A. COOPER

I bite the inside of my lip to conceal the smile forming. All right, so this is cool. Very cool. I�...
KATIE MCGARRY

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had ...
FRANCESCA ANNIS

I was surprised by how nice he was, ... The thing about Tony was, I never saw it as a feud, I saw it...
JULIE BURCHILL

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

I’m thinking,” he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, “that I look at y...
SARAH J. MAAS

Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good ...
BELLE AURORA

To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rathe...
MARK LAWRENCE

When I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He bossed up. No negativ...
NICKI MINAJ

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The (crude processing) figure is a little bit lower than we had expected, but it is not radically su...
JEFF BROWN

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny...
PIPPA EVANS

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you g...
LAURENCE FOX

This is a little bit like getting a bigger-than-expected package in a much prettier wrapping and hug...
ROBERT BRUSCA

You have to make choices and you can't do it all at once, ... This is sequential. This is step one a...
CAROLE TAYLOR

It was like being shot at by arrows in the chest, which when taken out would cause more pain than be...
CHIRAG TULSIANI

Never underestimate a boy like me. I’m like no one you’ve ever met, and II’m stronger than I s...
OLASOT

Better he think me rude than not think at all.
ROSS TURNER

I'm really happy and a bit sad too. Funny how we're able to feel both emotions at the same time.. or...
MJ CHRISTINE

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...
HELEN KELLER

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.
MARTIN LANDAU

We have to make choices and we can't do it all at once. This is step one and it's all about seniors.
CAROLE TAYLOR

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
MARIO CANTONE

In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset...
HENDRIK GROEN

There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kis...
LEANNE HALL

There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people fin...
COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU

I don’t intimidate you at all, do I? (Acheron)
Well, when you chased me through Kyrian’s ho...
SHERRILYN KENYON

I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into ...
JERRY SPINELLI

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.
ELISE ANDREW

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

I’m sure all of that’s true. Especially the anal bit--Marshall’s always been an ass--but I don...
KRISTA ALASTI

I’m realistic more than I be emotional, so emotions cannot hide me the reality.
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutter...
JAMES EARL JONES

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of w...
ASAP FERG

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you fi...
JIMMY CARR

It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home...
DANZY SENNA

I’m super fucking sensitive. I love this about myself only slightly more than I can’t stand it. ...
SCOTT STABILE

I can’t believe you bit me there,” she finally said. “But what I really can’t believe is how...
JEANIENE FROST

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will travers...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

the reality of being here eludes me, I can’t focus, I am dazed. And I want to stay this way. If I ...
SONALI DERANIYAGALA

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny cho...
JOHN GREEN

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned t...
KERRY WASHINGTON

I’m sorry. I don’t know how many times to tell you this for you to know it,” I continued. “F...
FELICIA TATUM

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was insti...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to ke...
ANNE SEXTON

Be happy that the guy that you love is rude with you. The one that I loved treated me wonderfully an...
MARIANA CORRêA COSTA

I don't know you and I don't want to know you
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.”
He leaned forward and kissed me o...
RICK RIORDAN

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to ...
NINA GUILBEAU

Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while,” Calista told me. “Sometimes things are too big for...
LISA GRAFF

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
FERDINAND LASSALLE

Being able to drive makes me feel wonderful. I just keep thinking about the day when I won't be able...
ARLENE MELTON

If you can’t forgive yourself, I am sure you can’t forgive anyone else.
VIKRANT PARSAI

Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K.

It doesn't get any prettier than this.
BOB SIMMS

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Bombshell wants it all, yet she is beginning to see she
can’t have it all at once.
AMBER HURDLE

If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

It makes me wonder how I’d be treated if I were like everyone else. Maybe I’m a pretty rotten pe...
JODI PICOULT

I would have thought this would make me feel better, for once getting to be the one to leave and not...
SARAH DESSEN

I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.
KELLYN ROTH

In some ways I feel sad about leaving NASA, but the reality is, I won't fly again.
EILEEN COLLINS

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Kra...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby...
EMILY PROCTER

In these situations, nothing is more important than communication. In every direction and to every a...
DR. HOWARD TULLMAN

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, ...
KATE ANGELL

Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of an...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about...
SCOTT DOUGLAS

But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can’t fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. ...
ERIN WATT

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I ...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
ICE CUBE

The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane
I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everythi...
DAVID LEVITHAN

But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

I can’t do it, Gideon! I can’t make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you lo...
KERSTIN GIER

Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my m...
ELIZABETH MUSSER

I already know your sister is smarter. She's prettier than me too, but I didn't bet on that. I just ...
SUZANNE YOUNG

A sad Texan once prayed, "Lord, I wish you would make it rain - not so much for me, I've seen it - b...
UNKNOWN

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict lif...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can not help being ugly, but you could stay home.
PAUL MELVIN DETMER

I'm a born-again atheist
GORE VIDAL

We are the United States of Amnesia.
GORE VIDAL

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in ...
JOSH LANYON

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just ge...
DAVID LYNCH

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkp...
DAVID HASSELHOFF

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me...
COCO CHANEL

Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier than it is: sad, grim, and funny all at once.

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Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier than it is: sad, grim, and funny all at once.

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