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• Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Brain, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

  Garth Brooks

  Young, Feels

  Song: Much Too Young, Album: Garth Brooks, 1989

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• Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it.

  David Carradine

  Fun, Guy, Feel Good

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• The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Important, Today

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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• The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

  Michael Crichton

  Nature, Giving, Expectations

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Cities, Resolution

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• I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

  Paul Engle

  Religious, School, Sunday

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.151, University of Iowa Press

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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Skating, Politics, Want

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• Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Blood, Want, Violence

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

  Lee Remick

  Sight, Interesting, Different

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• In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

  Nikki Reed

  School, Insecure, Adults

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• You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

  Mink Stole

  Want, Damn Things

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• The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

  Peter Weller

  Sweet, Smell, Goal

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• I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Player, Damn Good

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• As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Phones, Cells

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• Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

  Richelle Mead

  Sex, Common Sense, Way

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1369, Penguin

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• To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

  Eliphas Levi

  Giving, Hell, Rich

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• Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Political, Want

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• I drink to not giving a damn . . .

  Sheridan Hay

  Giving, Drink, Not Giving A Damn

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• I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Play, Insane

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