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• It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Three, Looks

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• But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Silence, Twenties

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• Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Army, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Wind

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• But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jordan, Causes

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

  Karen Chance

  Might, Polite

  Karen Chance (2008). “Embrace the Night”, p.31, Penguin

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• What? Was that a laugh? (Delphine) No. (Jericho) Yes, it was. I heard it. Holy cow, call Hermes to spread the news. I think I just started the end of the world…it has to be a sign of the apocalypse. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Laughing, News

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• Could this be the Apocalypse ?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.74, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

  Chris Adrian

  Book, Angel, Grace

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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• The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

  Melina Marchetta

  Winning, Two, Numbers

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• The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

  Norman Mailer

  Promise, Guilt, Nausea

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• I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.

  Jenna Fischer

  Women, Water, Zombie

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  Edgar Wright

  Art, Night, Light

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no Apocalypse.

  Paul Fussell

  Religion

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• The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Pestilence

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• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Trying, President, Fiction

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

  Elon Musk

  Zombie, Tesla, Able

  "Tesla Is Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse". www.technologyreview.com. May 30, 2013.

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• As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Literature, World, Aim

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

  Simon Barnes

  Funny, Clever, Husband

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• What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.

  Frank Rich

  Chocolate, Groups, Four

  "Herbert Hoover Lives" by Frank Rich, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2009.

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  Jean Guitton

  Teaching, Blow, Humanity

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• The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.

  Charles-Francois Dupuis

  Fashion, Real, Book

  Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com

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• Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.

  St. Sukie de la Croix

  Zombie, Insane, Thanks

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• The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

  Charles R. Johnson

  Careers, Plans

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• In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Honesty, Moving, Book

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