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• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dark, Hunting, Eggs

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• The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Military, Men, Mirrors

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• I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Thinking, Brain

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• The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

  Craig Clevenger

  Time Flies, Clock

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria”, p.95, MP Publishing

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Body

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• It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.

  S.G. Browne

  Wife, Car, Animated

  S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.10, Three Rivers Press

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• Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

  Clarice Lispector

  Becoming, Mature, Danger

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Soul, Enemy

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• Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches .

  Charles Saatchi

  Stars, Ambition, Artist

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Mean, Clothes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Dresses, Layers

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• Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

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• The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
  "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
  "Wouldn't dream of it," I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Dream, Nice, Fire

  "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth, Ch. 36, (pp. 389-390), May 1, 2012.

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• He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

  Margaret Haddix

  Sweet, Eye, Smell

  "Among the Enemy".

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• Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Soul, Poison

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Change, Apples, Skins

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.418, Stanford University Press

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• That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

  Cassandra Clare

  Yellow, Eric, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren’t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn’t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don’t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don’t want to look at what’s rotting there.

  Deb Caletti

  Dark, Thinking, Air

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• There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

  Dave Barry

  Cat, Fur, Bunk

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• So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

  John Updike

  Too Much, Dandelions, Madness

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.120, Random House

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• I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Bulls, Want, Shirts

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• It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

  Marissa Meyer

  Looks, Pumpkin

  Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Believe, Maturity

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