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• It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Disappointing, Worst

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• Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Princess, Mean, People

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• Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Someone You Love, Worst

  Anna Quindlen (2013). “Every Last One and Rise and Shine: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.229, Random House

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• For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

  James Frey

  Way, Sometimes, Speak

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Lying, Believe, Fate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• ... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

  Jandy Nelson

  Worst, Best Things, Happens

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.88, Penguin

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• The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Would Be, Want, Used

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.

  Tonya Hurley

  Being In Love, Term Paper, World

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• The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Care, Worst, Can Do

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• The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

  Gore Vidal

  Fall, Hands, Theatre

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• This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Father, Men, Forever

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, Gone, World

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• Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Judging, Going Away

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.103, Penguin

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• Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

  Janet Fitch

  Despair, Panic, Possibility

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Faces, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

  Jim Butcher

  Things In Life, Harry Dresden, Worst

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin

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• He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Two, Clarity

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Memorable, Unrequited Love

  Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton

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• The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Simple, Guy

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Parent, I've Learned

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• The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Causes, Worst

  "Economic sophisms". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1845.

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• Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Giving Up, Self Esteem

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else.

  Glen Duncan

  Worst, Best Things, Ifs

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.208, Canongate Books

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• Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

  Graham Greene

  Lust, May, Sin

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Strong, Crazy

  "Turning the Table on 'Actor's Studio's' James Lipton". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 6, 2006.

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