15 Profound Quotes About Heartbreak From Famous Authors
Everybody hurts.
1. Sylvia Plath

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From The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
2. Oscar Wilde

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From De Profundis.
3. Toni Morrison

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From Sula.
4. Jonathan Franzen

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From Freedom.
5. William Faulkner

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From Soldiers' Pay.
6. Margaret Atwood

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From The Robber Bride.
7. James Baldwin

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Hear it from the man himself.
8. Jeffrey Eugenides

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From The Marriage Plot.
9. Norman Rush

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From Mating.
10. W. Somerset Maugham

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From The Summing Up.
11. Lorrie Moore

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From A Gate at the Stairs.
12. Gabriel García Márquez

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From Collected Stories.
13. Virginia Woolf

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From A Room of One's Own.
14. Samuel Johnson

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From The Life of Samuel Johnson.
15. Stephen King

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From Hearts in Atlantis.