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• What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Thinking, Ducks

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• You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Doors, World

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• Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better." The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Feel Better, Snakes

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• Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Enemy, Poison

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.11, Macmillan

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• But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

  Robert Kirkman

  Thinking, Ghouls, Trying

  Robert Kirkman (2006). “The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us”, p.17, Image Comics

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• When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Grandfather

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• Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Judgement, Said, Gloria

  "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald".

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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  Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

  Dorothy Day

  Acceptance, Tyrants, Social Justice

  "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

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• Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

  Harper Lee

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Skins, Faces

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• If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Apples, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

  Amy Tan

  World, Woods, Paint

  Amy Tan (1991). “The kitchen god's wife”, Random House, Inc.

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• I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Wonderful, Delicate

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

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• No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, People, House

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• Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Giving, Tomatoes

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.87, Penguin

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• For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

  Ernest Cline

  Black, Three, Hours

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.254, Random House

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• Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

  Heather Brewer

  Dad, Epidemics, Black

  Heather Brewer (2011). “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites: Eighth Grade Bites”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Lying, Cutting, White

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• If I’m not back in a few hours…well, I don’t want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing this. I’m thinking happy thoughts. Creamed dog innards and rotten steak. Yeah. Yum! (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.268, Macmillan

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• Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Groups, Lemmings

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.146, John Wiley & Sons

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• I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Justice, Criminals

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• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Mother, Giving Up

  "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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