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• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Light

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.

  Alan Moore

  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

  "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Volume 2, issue 2, People of Other Lands,

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• When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

  C.P. Snow

  Hero, Acceptance, Men

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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• My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

  Tim Burton

  Boys, Names, Penguins

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• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Blow, Paris

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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• Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  David Foster Wallace

  Rap, Pride, Black

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Shapes, Rage

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1987). “Selected Tales and Sketches”, p.131, Penguin

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• Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Guilt, Tears

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.262, University of Illinois Press

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• What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

  Melina Marchetta

  Couple, Waiting, Looks

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• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Obsolete

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

  John Wyndham

  Children, Heart, Self

  "The chrysalids".

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• Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mirrors, Years, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Memories, Hair, Long

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• War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Century, Horrible

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.21, Booklassic

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• The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, People, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Angel, Able, Faces

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 27, 2017

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• How hideous is the semicolon.

  Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Watt”, Grove Pr

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• But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

  Arundhati Roy

  Grief, Night, Law

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• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

  Simone Weil

  Wisdom, Justice, Modern

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Dwarves, Names

  "A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)". Book by George R. R. Martin, August 8, 2000.

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• It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Mother, Sweet, Littles

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• You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

  Karen Maitland

  Love, Fall, Men

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• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  Jo Brand

  Sun, Married, Moments

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

  David Foster Wallace

  Marijuana, Emotional, Psychics

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