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• I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

  Rachel Cohn

  Badass, Want, Snob

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

  J. K. Rowling

  Missing, Gryffindor, Know It All

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• Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Communication, Writing

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Twenties, Looks

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.69, Penguin

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• Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

  Libba Bray

  Warning, Walks, Marrow

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  Russell Baker

  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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• No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.

  Paul Shirley

  Kansas, Fans, Where You Live

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• In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Evil, Cures

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• If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Conceited, Sea

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Failure, Grace, Style

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• I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Would Be, My Own

  "Questions and Answers With Diablo Cody" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. February 06, 2013.

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• My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Space, People, Grace

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• You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Brother, Glimpse, Annoying

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.285, Harlequin

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• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Genius, Mediocrity, Chess

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• Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hate, School, Boys

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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• I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Aunt, Worst Enemy

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

  N. T. Wright

  Trying, Shows

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• He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mother, Memorable, Men

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• What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hurt, Vanity, It Hurts

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  May, Way, Still Life With Woodpecker

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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