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• Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.

  Hortense Odlum

  Believe, Judging, People

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• The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Path, Moments, Found

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

  Judith McNaught

  Heart, Black, Flattery

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• Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Life, Men, Ninety Nine

  Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich (1991). “Newspaper Days”, p.69, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Selfish, Mean, Forgiving

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

  Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful, Moving, Numbness

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• Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

  Elizabeth Wein

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• Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Long, Worry, World

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.119, Egmont UK

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• The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

  Alfred Marshall

  Facts, Speak, Reckless

  Alfred Marshall (1956). “Selected Works of Alfred Marshall for a Memorial Collection for Professor Ralph L. Dewey, 1901-1959: Memorials of Alfred Marshall”

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• If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

  Anthony Burgess

  Political, Pretending, Died

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Dream, Mistake

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Believe, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Talking, Evil

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• Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

  Edna Ferber

  Sweet Love, Writing, Emo Love

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

  Pablo Neruda (2002). “The Sea and the Bells”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• ..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Loneliness, Believe, Boys

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

  Rachel Cohn

  Romance, Confusing, Want

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

  Edith Pattou

  Thinking, Two, Giving

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.79, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Sorry, Thinking

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• Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

  Thomas Mann

  Privilege, Artistic, Injustice

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• Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

  Jesse Taylor

  Ocean, Mma, Sail

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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