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• What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Thinking, Ducks

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• No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, People, House

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• Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better." The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Feel Better, Snakes

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• When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Grandfather

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• Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Judgement, Said, Gloria

  "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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  Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

  Dorothy Day

  Acceptance, Tyrants, Social Justice

  "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

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• Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

  Harper Lee

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Skins, Faces

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• If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Apples, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

  Amy Tan

  World, Woods, Paint

  Amy Tan (1991). “The kitchen god's wife”, Random House, Inc.

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• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Wonderful, Delicate

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

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• When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

  Mitch Albom

  About Yourself, One More Day, Those You Love

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Giving, Tomatoes

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.87, Penguin

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• For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

  Ernest Cline

  Black, Three, Hours

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.254, Random House

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• Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

  Heather Brewer

  Dad, Epidemics, Black

  Heather Brewer (2011). “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites: Eighth Grade Bites”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

  Robert Kirkman

  Thinking, Ghouls, Trying

  Robert Kirkman (2006). “The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us”, p.17, Image Comics

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• Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Enemy, Poison

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

  Erma Bombeck

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

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• Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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• [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Use, Body

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• You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Doors, World

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