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• I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

  Norton Juster

  Jobs, Effort, Monsters

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• What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid, Lost Ones, Mind

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• Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

  Phoebe Stone

  Hurt, Shoes, Awkward

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Habit

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• There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

  Eva Hart

  Stars, Dark, Night

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• The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

  Bob Kerrey

  Mistake, Feelings, Looks

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• People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.

  Garrison Keillor

  Loss, People, Losing

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.6, Penguin

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Unhappy, Life Is

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• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  Victor Hugo

  Persistence, Ideas, Absorbing

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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• Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Violence, Life Is

  1994 In the Observer,'Sayings of the Week',16 Oct.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

  Plato

  Desire, Type, Seems

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• The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Bertolt Brecht, Erich Fried (1979). “Poems”

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• Success and failure are terrible traps.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Success And Failure

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• Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

  Jose Marti

  Poetry, Merit, Praise

  Jose Marti's remarks on "El Poema de Niágara" of Pérez Bonalde, 1883.

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• Some things are too terrible to be true.

  Bob Dylan

  Being True

  Song: Honest With Me, Album: Love And Theft, 2001

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• You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

  Emilie Autumn

  Pain, Real, Believe

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• No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Play, Names, America

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Rama, Coal

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• She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Heart, Dark, Cities

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

  Selma Blair

  Cheerleading, Mean, Dancer

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• He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

  Marisha Pessl

  Things In Life, Trying, Scar

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin

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• Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  People, Despair, Unhappy

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• They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

  Tim O'Brien

  Bears, Silent, Awe

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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