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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.
'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton

i am queen of percha, sullenest of the seven seas, Behold my dusky desert beauty". She wiped of her scarf and did a terrible belly dance. — Soman Chainani

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes. — Whitney Cummings

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. — Joe Meno

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible. — Graham Russell

I get terrible reviews, but there are people who like to see me in the movies, I guess. — Sandra Dee

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last. — Gene Wilder

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles

Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it ... — John Geddes

People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident. — Josh Lanyon

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

My love, I feel terrible without you. It is like being with you. — Manu Joseph

You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. — Jodee Blanco

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? — L.M. Montgomery

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' — Rickie Lee Jones

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us. — Jimmy Carter

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives. — Erin McKean

If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. — Kurt Vonnegut

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. — Pierre Salinger

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. — Gary Oldman

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. — Sylvia Plath

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks. — Zelda Fitzgerald

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General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's something aboard that thing, a dark and powerful figure. And it awaits the coming of something--something terrible. — Noah Fregger

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day. — Richard Engel

Let me be the wave. And if I cannot be the wave, let me be the rupture at the bottom. Let me be that terrible first rift in the dark.] — Lauren Groff

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. — Benny Hinn

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing. — Zoey Deutch

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan. — David Dixon

As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. — Becky Chambers

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. — Chuck Palahniuk

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. — Ross Macdonald

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. — Audrey Hepburn

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life. — Paul Hoffman

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know? — Brian Evenson

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. — Marcel Marceau

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner. — Hazel Gaynor

It was once a house of God, but not after that terrible night. It changed; they let that woman in and it changed their lives for ever. — Helen Phifer

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me. — Alber Elbaz

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak, — Jared Cohen

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it. — Marisha Pessl

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.
It's really funny. — Brandon Sanderson

Alex would make a terrible Martian," said Sarah. "He doesn't have a giant laser and he's not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom." She — Seanan McGuire

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. — Neal Stephenson

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I was in love once, and it was terrible. — Gloria Trevi

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible. — Sirio Maccioni

Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why — Mark Lawrence

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed. — John Le Carre

It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad. — Elizabeth Cadell

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be ... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference. — Xavier Becerra

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. — Nick Hornby

You have to look for the little mercies, the small kindnesses and good that come from the terrible. — Heather Gudenkauf

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele

I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had. — Charles Bukowski

I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world. — Megan Linski

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged. — Sarah Waters

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.' — Michelle Yeoh

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to. — Anna Nicole Smith

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed

the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. — J.K. Rowling

Does she love you?"
"Not yet," Elliott says. "But she will. Araby's used to loving people who've done terrible things. — Bethany Griffin

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know ... — Lemony Snicket

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson

He felt eyes suddenly upon him because marital telepathy is a terrible thing — Terry Pratchett

He had what young and/or terrible people were recently calling swag. — Dave Holmes

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior. — Laura Wasser

I'm a terrible long-term planner. — Condoleezza Rice

He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper — Thorne Smith

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. — Alan Dershowitz

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible. — Kim Carnes

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures. — Jason Clarke

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful. — Douglas Coupland

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously. — Barry Humphries

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. — Anne Sexton

Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe. — H.P. Lovecraft

This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. — Douglas Adams

Human beings are terrible things, Arthur. — David Burr Gerrard

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. — Robert Hayden

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. — Chuck Palahniuk

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people — Patricia Volk

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary — Sunday Adelaja

We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday. — Andrea Gibson

Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible. — Alice Herz-Sommer

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from. — Joan Rivers

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home. — Sarah Sutton

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst