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• Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Angel, Able, Faces

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 27, 2017

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• How hideous is the semicolon.

  Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Watt”, Grove Pr

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• But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

  Arundhati Roy

  Grief, Night, Law

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• War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Century, Horrible

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.21, Booklassic

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• There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Memories, Hair, Long

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• Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Guilt, Tears

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.262, University of Illinois Press

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• The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Shapes, Rage

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1987). “Selected Tales and Sketches”, p.131, Penguin

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• I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Missing, Necklaces, Way

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, People, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

  Sister Parish

  Aunt, Sentimental, Members

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• I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Long, Parent

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• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  Jo Brand

  Sun, Married, Moments

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Water, Suffering

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• A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

  Rupert Everett

  Events, World, Way

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• I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

  Kathy Griffin

  Cancer, Apologizing, Chemotherapy

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

  Christina Ricci

  Might, Ugh, Sincere

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• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Power, Machines

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions"

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• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Heart, Echoes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Obsolete

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Children, Adults, Shock

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• State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Overcoming, States, Projects

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• Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  David Foster Wallace

  Rap, Pride, Black

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

  Simone Weil

  Wisdom, Justice, Modern

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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