I've done my damndest to rip ...

I\'ve done my damndest to rip a reader\'s nerves to rags, I don\'t want him satisfied.
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.