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• Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

  Euripides

  Hate, Love Is, Stronger

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.169, Oxford University Press

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• Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Silence, Depth

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, 2005.

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• Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

  Neal Stephenson

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

  Graham Greene

  Life, Children, Husband

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• But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!

  Anne Frank

  Men, Doors, Order

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

  Harlan Ellison

  Hate, Passion, Past

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• Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.

  Christopher Paolini

  Kings, Grief, Titles

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.321, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Spotlight

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

  John Steinbeck

  Way, Forget, Imagine

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.89, Penguin

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• When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

  Dennis Miller

  Character, Kids, College

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.126, Crown Forum

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• But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Mind, Desire

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.182

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Men, Political

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• The best revenge is living well without you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Without You, Live Well, Wells

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• Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wicked, May, Natural

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.540, Delphi Classics

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Hate

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• But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

  Robert Jordan

  Mistake, Men, Justice

  "The Great Hunt". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

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• Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

  Sherman Alexie

  Circles

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Oct 08, 2015

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• Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

  Alexandre Dumas

  Heart, Tears, Fool

  Alexandre Dumas (2004). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.552, Collector's Library

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• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Party, Home, Knowing

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

  Miranda July

  Knives, People, Trying

  "The shared patio" by Miranda July, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Giving, Suffering

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

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• Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Advice, Pace

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• Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

  Emily Dickinson

  Hate, Enemy, Meat

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Home, Heart

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Bores, Ifs

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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