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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

  Oscar Wilde

  Magic, Vivid, Subtle

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

  Libba Bray

  Light, Forgiving, Awful

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• She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mother, Doubt, Guilty

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.37, Random House

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• And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Solitude, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Feb 12, 2012

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• For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Home, Long

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• It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

  Miranda July

  Wish, Needs, Paint

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

  Douglas Adams

  Pain, Mean, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

  Epicurus

  Worry, Easy, Endure

  Epicurus, Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson “The Epicurus Reader”, Hackett Publishing

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• And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Waiting, Living My Life, Crevice

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.176, Penguin

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Men, Air

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• Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?” Stark asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor. I am!” Heath and Erik said together.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Voice, Your Boyfriend

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.3, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Trouble

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed from his entombing bed Through the hand of the dead he is free Terrible beauty, monstrous sight Ruled again they shall be Women shall kneel to his dark might Kalona's song sounds sweet As we slaughter with cold heat

  P. C. Cast

  Song, Sweet, Queens

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “Revealed: Number 11 in series”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Inspirational, Warning, Example

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• So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.

  Shaun Tan

  Laughing, Interesting, Stories

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• If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Phones, House

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• The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

  Tom Wilson

  Inspiration, Mind, Terrible Things

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• Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

  Amy Winehouse

  People, Skins, Energy

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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• Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

  Jonathan Winters

  War, Cancer, Heart

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Leadership, Believe

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• Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

  Tom Wolfe

  Book, Long, Firsts

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• It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Filled In, Needs, World

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• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Scare, United States

  Interview by Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946

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• I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  New York, Kitchen, Cooks

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 26, 2005.

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