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• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  Vanessa Paradis

  Past, Evil, Pay

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

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• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Birthday, Years, Bully

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

  Julian Clary

  Bullying, Being Bullied, Relentless

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Princess, Trials

  "A Little Princess".

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• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Light

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.

  Alan Moore

  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

  "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Volume 2, issue 2, People of Other Lands,

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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