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• Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

  Woody Allen

  Law, Lobster, Done

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Tomatoes, Lettuce

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• I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

  Criss Jami

  Morning, Night, Insomnia

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

  Judith Hand

  Uplifting, War, Caring

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• Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?

  Lowkey

  Nations

  Song: Obama Nation 2, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle

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• The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

  Tony Kushner

  Love Is, People, Giving

  "Tony Kushner's Paradise Lost" by Arthur Lubow, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 1992.

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• I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Abuse, Miserable

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

  Steve Aylett

  Writing, Space, Signatures

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• I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

  Peter Tosh

  Regret, Men, Long

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• It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Differences, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar, Singers, Violin

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• A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Passion, Hobbies, Gains

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.175, Vintage

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• It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Citizens, Impossible, Murder

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• DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

  William Cobbett

  People, Deals, Filthy

  1823 On Deal, Kent. Rural Rides (published 1830), entry for 3 Sep.

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  Leonard Shlain

  Taken, Two, Rights

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• Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

  John Redmond

  Party, Two, Theory

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• The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

  Glen Duncan

  Grief, Mean, Wrath

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• Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

  E. B. White

  Sight, Well Said, Wells

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.188, Cornell University Press

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• The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

  Thomas E. Sniegoski

  Sound, Silent, Command

  Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

  John Green

  Clubs, Homosexuality

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.29, Penguin

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