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• I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Self, Improvement, Obsession

  "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

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• An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.

  Richard Estes

  Night, Years, Play

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• I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.

  Jordan Mechner

  Cutting, Different, Rope

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• When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

  Deborah Davis

  Yelling, Feelings, Frustrated

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• Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

  Karl Hess

  Government, Promise, Doe

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• Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

  Boss Tweed

  Writing, Paper, Care

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• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Artist, Men, Supposing That

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Giving, Want

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.

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• Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Real, World

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• And for an apple damn'd mankind.

  Thomas Otway

  Apples, Mankind

  1680 TheOrphan, act 3.

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• You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

  Thomas Otway

  Judging, Wags

  1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.

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• It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Giving, Sound, Looks

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• I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

  William Carlos Williams

  Way, Fool, Conducting

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.483, New Directions Publishing

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• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

  Tennessee Williams

  Wall, Sight, People

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Bottles, World

  Song: Moonshiner

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• There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

  Rex Stout

  Great Writers

  "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout" by Robert van Gelder, The New York Times, September 21, 1941.

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• Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Horse, Motivation

  Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.

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• The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

  Charles Bukowski

  Easter, Children, Clever

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

  Ernest Bevin

  Able, Tickets, Please

  In 'Spectator' 20 April 1951, p. 514

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• And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

  Arnold Wesker

  Baby, Food, Hands

  'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

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• God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

  Francois Duvalier

  Taken, People, Forever

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• Any damn fool can predict the past.

  Larry Niven

  Past, Fool

  Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press

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• I don't give a damn what people think.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Everybody's looking at me But it's alright I like attention The clubs not hot until I walk through They stop and stare and watch me move Like damn I like that I'm sexy and you know it.

  Paris Hilton

  Sexy, Moving, Hot

  Song: Turn You on, Album: Paris, 2006

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