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Masochism is a valuable job skill. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism. -- Cesare Pavese
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango. -- Tom Lehrer
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. -- Andrei Codrescu
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! -- Jennifer Stone
If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? -- David Levithan
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression. -- Helene Deutsch
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. -- Erich Fromm
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. -- Faina Ranevskaya
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. -- Fay Weldon
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. -- Jeanne Moreau
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it? -- Clint Eastwood
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. -- Germaine Greer
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape. -- Will Self
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs. -- Mathias Dopfner
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. -- David Lodge
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. -- Spiro T. Agnew
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. -- James Jones
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. -- Doris Lessing
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace. -- Emma Caulfield
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants. -- Jean Maalouf
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval. -- Lauren Bacall
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference. -- Jeff Atwood
It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. -- Michael Gira

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