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• A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.

  Al Capone

  Hate, Hard Work, Heart

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

  Ann Magnuson

  Artist, Faith In Yourself, Happens

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Journey, Penguins, Coming Out

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• And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Sleep, Snow, Welcome

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2016). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.278, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

  Marv Wolfman

  Hostage, Continuity

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• The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

  Kirby Larson

  Courage, Folks, Standing

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.164, Yearling

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• Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

  Julius Lester

  Believe, Practice, Despair

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• The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

  Sam Keen

  Self Esteem, Animal, Men

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• Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

  Mark Lawrence

  Dream, Fear, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.74, Penguin

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• Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

  Tom Rachman

  Memories, End Of Life, Ends

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• We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

  Tom Rachman

  Memories, Illusion, End Of Life

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• Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

  Margaret Way

  Men, Arrogance, Forget

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• Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

  Bryan Stevenson

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• Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Done, Worst Things

  Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.21, Spiegel & Grau

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• Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Revenge, Good Things, One Thing

  Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Careers, Feelings

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• Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hate, Kissing, World

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• Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

  Joe Dumars

  League, Offers, Presenting

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• John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.

  Jill Haworth

  Attitude, Men, Wayne

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Fun, Hands, Joy

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them”, p.8, WaterBrook

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• The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Fart, Worst Things

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