Badness Quotes (page 63)

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• fear
• world
• bad

there is nothin bad to fear; once you have crossed tha threshold, all is well. Another world , and you do not have to speak Franz Kafka

• feeling
• devil
• good

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good! Anne Rice

• god
• book
• bad

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women. Francisco de Quevedo

• power
• bad
• to live

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense... John Gardner

• good people
• bad
• people

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people. Mort Sahl

• enough
• believe
• true

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. Jodi Picoult

• nature
• bad
• courses

All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally. Elizabeth Hardwick

• end
• bad
• personality

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. Isabel Allende

• sad
• bad
• you me

Don't turn around.'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it. Avril Lavigne

• lies
• believe
• party

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Jodi Picoult

• life
• believe
• spiritual

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. Salman Rushdie

• bad
• badly
• very

I have very bad posture. Kurt Cobain

• best
• outdoor
• smile

Did we have sex?" he asked directly. For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you’d ever had." (At the time he couldn’t recall all the sex he’d ever had. But he’d paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you can’t remember it," I concluded with a modest smile. Eric looked like I’d hit him in the forehead with a mallet.... Charlaine Harris

• luck
• bad
• bad luck

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy

• leaving
• technology
• bad

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. Kurt Vonnegut