My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
– J Robert Oppenheimer
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- After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. – Mary Oliver
- It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. – Thomas Paine
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- Don’t deny the past. Remember everything. If you’re bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene. – Joy Kogawa
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- Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels. – Laini Taylor
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- Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. – Claude LviStrauss
- I’m glad she left me the kids. I’d be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I’m only bitter. – Steven Herrick
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- Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I’m desperately wishes… – Hira Shahid Kazim
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- Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. – Julian Barnes
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