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• You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Drunk, Wish

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

  Bill Bailey

  Disappointment, Chocolate, Despair

  "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

  Joss Whedon

  Crazy, Reality, People

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• Rather than becoming obsessed with the evil around you, ask God to give you a fresh perspective to see how He can bring good out of it. Look for the hand of God in your difficult situations. He is willing to use even the most horrible sins and the most foolish choices, as long as we trust Him to do just that.

  Phil Waldrep

  Hands, Difficult Situations, Long

  Phil Waldrep (2016). “Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?”, p.106, Worthy Publishing

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• The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.

  Alfred Jodl

  Hands, Order, Ideas

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• Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

  Cressida Cowell

  Book, Culture, Barbarians

  Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• War is horrible because it strangles youth.

  Philip Kearny

  War, Youth

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• I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.

  Chris Rock

  Dog, Interesting, Gourmet

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

  Jessica Zafra

  Mistake, Long, Lessons

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

  Eben Alexander

  Powerful, Love Picture, Evil

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

  Oscar Wilde

  Order, Evil, Use

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

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• I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Moving, Sitting, Research

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• Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

  Patricia Kaas

  Sky, Wake Up, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Summer, Sleep, Car

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.105, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

  Richard Siken

  Forgiving, Staring

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• The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Mad, Upset, Want

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• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Running, Stupid, Mean

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.183, Macmillan

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• War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Smart, Mean

  "Untold Truths About the American Revolution" by Howard Zinn, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 20, 2009.

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• The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

  Jay Leno

  Games, People, Water

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• Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

  Hamid Karzai

  Hurt, People, Justice

  "Afghan capital optimistic 6 months later" By Rose Arce, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2002.

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• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World, Care, Innocence

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• One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Mean, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama

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• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Richard Widmark

  Character, Play, Racist

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