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Damning Quotes (page 8)

Hamm: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon? Clov: (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, exasperated): What in God's name would there be on the horizon? (Pause.) Hamm: The waves, how are the waves? Clov: The waves? (He turns the telescope on the waves.) Lead. Hamm: And the sun? Clove: (Looking) Zero. Hamm: But it should be sinking. Look again. Clov: (Looking) Damn the sun. Hamm: Is it night already then? Clov: (Looking) No. Hamm: Then what is it? Clov: (Looking)... Samuel Beckett
Dean Koontz quote: "She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels..."
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. Dean Koontz
J. D. Salinger quote: "I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody..."
I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around. J. D. Salinger
The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. J. D. Salinger
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it. Margaret Laurence
It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now. Dorothy Allison
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an... H. P. Lovecraft
Rudyard Kipling quote: "At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn..."
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. Rudyard Kipling
Arundhati Roy quote: "Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just..."
Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered? Arundhati Roy
For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out --through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused. Thomas Wolfe
Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution every spring / Of reformation, ere the year run out. George Byron
What about San Francisco?"What about it?"Did you like it?"She shrugged. "It was O.K."Just O.K.?"She laughed. "Good God!"What?"You're all alike here."How so?" he asked."You demand adoration for the place. You're not happy until everybody swears undying love for every nook and cranny of every precious damn --"Whoa, missy."Well, it's true. Can't you just worship it on your own? Do I have to sign an affadavit?"He chuckled. "We're that bad, are we?"You bet your ass you are. Armistead Maupin
Harper Lee quote: "Pass the damn ham, please."
Pass the damn ham, please. Harper Lee
Gloria Steinem quote: "so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of..."
so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. Gloria Steinem
Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. Hunter S. Thompson

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