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• Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Queens, Purple, Envy

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.120, A&C Black

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• As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Doors, Brain, Saws

  Song: Niggas Bleed

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• As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

  Coolio

  Pistols, Retribution, Smoke

  Song: Gangsters Paradise, Album: Gangsta's Paradise, 1995

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• Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pain, Lying, Men

  Song: My Jekyll Doesn't Hide, Album: Ozzmosis

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• Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

  Neil Young

  Baby, Rivers, Retribution

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• The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Exacting Revenge, Pops, Ultimate

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• Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Children, Games, Mind

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• I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hatred, Want, Scared

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge. It turns sour and eats you up. We'll get out, but we'll get out for the sun, the moon, and mothers, not for small-souled enemies, though we'll deal with them when we get there.

  N.D. Wilson

  Mother, Moon, Years

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• The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Writing, Hands, Joy

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Worry, Tests, Charity

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

  John Adams

  Religious, Passion, Ambition

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

  Mario Puzo

  Taste, Cold, Dishes

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• A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.

  Fumiko Enchi

  Passion, Love Is, Blood

  Fumiko Enchi (1983). “Masks”, Vintage

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• IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, Gay, Thinking

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

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• That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

  James Patterson

  Machines, Said

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.174, Random House

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• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Humility, Eye

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• The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

  Barry Lyga

  Dad, Live Well, Wells

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

  Julie Garwood

  Eye, Feet, Together

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

  Libba Bray

  Hate, Love Is, Thinking

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• I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Long, Buisness

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• You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

  Megan Hart

  Best Revenge, Looking Good, Knows

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• Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

  Ann Aguirre

  Kindness, Pride, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Ignorance, People, Goal

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World”, p.129, PuddleDancer Press

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• Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Dark, Men

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