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Topic·Toughness✕clear

Novel

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again-but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark · 1915

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.5

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

I've never met anyone like you. There's not a spark of sentiment or romance or human kindness in your whole body.

Edie Doyle

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 2.0

Film · War (film) · War

Any mercy and people will take advantage of you.

Captain Iwasaki

Letters from Iwo Jima · 2006

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?

Omar Little

The Wire · 2006

★ 1.3

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