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• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Men, Giving

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.372, Spiegel & Grau

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• Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Left Hand, Crowds

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books

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• Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Powerful, Hate, People

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• ...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

  Chetan Bhagat

  Night, People, Pages

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• The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Littles, Apes

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• I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

  D. J. MacHale

  Strong, Hate, Character

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

  Darren Shan

  Truth, Real, Hero

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

  Djuna Barnes

  People, Life Is

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• Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next statement.) Attention, please, Psycho Alert. Me, he-man, am prone to nasty mood swings, lengthy pouts, and possess the ability to tell a woman the truth about her weight without warning. (Selena)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Swings, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Guilt, Triangles

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Doe, World

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• I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

  Paula Deen

  Wine, Dark, Chocolate

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• It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dog, Looks, Made

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty.

  Kim Harrison

  Six Months, Sitting, Razors

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits...not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sandwiches, World, Knuckles

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• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

  Mel Brooks

  Mustache, Needs, Cinema

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• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

  David Bowie

  Song, Mean, Interesting

  "5 Lessons for Creatives From David Bowie’s Remarkably Imaginative and Prolific Journey" by Chester Goad, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2016.

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• We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Adventure, Flying

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• I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Player, Parent

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• A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Naughty, Rebellion

  Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill"

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• Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Needs, Cuffs

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• I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

  Mickey Spillane

  Dirty, People, Together

  Mickey Spillane (1968). “The Big Kill”, p.7, Penguin

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