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• Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Children, Men, Parent

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.269, The Floating Press

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• Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

  George Harrison

  Zoos, Men, Space

  "I, Me, Mine". Book by George Harrison, 1979.

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• We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Cutting, Mass Extinction

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• Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

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• To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

  Suzanne Collins

  Boys, Connections, Bread

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Quality, Produce

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• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• May we all be doomed to a happy life.

  Alethea Kontis

  Happy Life, May

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

  Ariana Franklin

  Soul, Capacity

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• Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Shells, Trouble, Force

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

  Bill Walsh

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

  Steven Morrissey

  Forever, Goes On, May

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• The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

  Judith Martin

  Civilization, Television, Tables

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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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• Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."

  Frederic Farrar

  Dog, Cutting, Thinking

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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• I can't remember when I've liked a character as much as I've liked young Lyle Rettew, or when I've cheered one on so hard, despite the fact that he's clearly crazy and his quest is doomed. A thunderous debut, and the beginning of what will surely be a breathtaking career.

  Pinckney Benedict

  Crazy, Character, Careers

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• Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mistake, Mean, Repeats

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• Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

  Michael Cunningham

  Rain, Night, Wind

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded her she missed him, too, which was just wrong. She should not be missing Morganville, or anyone in it. Especially not the crazy boss vampire who’d put fang marks in her neck that would never, ever go away. She was doomed to high-necked shirts because of him. But she did miss him.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Heart, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.147, Penguin

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• It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

  Steve Berry

  Past, Way, Remember

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1245, Ballantine Books

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• I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Journey, Brave

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Running, Married, If I Could

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss

  David Benioff

  Kissing, Winter, Wind

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.179, Penguin

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• You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.

  Darynda Jones

  Kissing, Bye, Nurse

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.211, St. Martin's Press

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