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• Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

  Fred Durst

  Long, Sometimes, Feels

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• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

  Carson Daly

  Wish, Way, Moral

  "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Tree, Literature, Fruit

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• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, People, Get Away

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• Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

  Bono

  Country, Thinking, Digging

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• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Soul, Curiosity

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

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• The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Earth, Sake

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• I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.

  Eva Green

  Grateful, Years, Done

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Blessed, Writing, Play

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• Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  United States, States, United

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• And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

  Voltaire

  Men, Sea, Giving

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• Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Lying, Light

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1611, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Blessed, Sheep, Satanic

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• Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Nature Of Man

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• That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Blessed, Communication, Fighting

  "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Class, Optimism, Contentment

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

  Marguerite Duras

  Memories, Long, Lust

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• My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

  Michael Sheen

  Dog, Cat, Tragedy

  "Q&A" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Desire, Want

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• In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

  Seamus Heaney

  Moors, Mist, Beam

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• Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.

  George Saunders

  Song, Blessed, Fall

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

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• The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

  John W. Gardner

  Fate, Men, Pay

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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