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  • Paul Auster It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
    (2014)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Katherine Mansfield It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Alphonse Karr Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • P. T. Barnum Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Henderson Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Woody Allen My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Millicent Fenwick Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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  • Pearl S. Buck None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Philip Roth Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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