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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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ELIZABETH HARDWICK It was terrible, and at one point we thought he would have to chose between his health and racing, a...
JULIE SPEED He wouldn't talk to anyone, including me. It was terrible. So I quit.
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DAVID NICHOLLS Oh, he was playing terrible before the tournament.
CARL JACKSON He only weighed 78 pounds when he got here. ... The stench of burned flesh coming from his ears was ...
NICOLE SHARPE He said the stench of dead bodies was terrible.
JENNIE KELM He was a great teammate, one of the hardest-working guys that I played with. A terrible loss, a terr...
DEACON JONES It was a terrible call. At that point of the game, I just lifted the guy's stick (Patrick Eaves) and...
DAN BOYLE An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
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ETHAN CANIN That was a terrible call. A terrible call,
LARRY BOWA The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really for...
LEO TOLSTOY He was crushed, it's just terrible. We're not sure when that restaurant will open again.
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JOYCE CAROL OATES NO!”
The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor...
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CARRIE FISHER was a terrible senator. He did a terrible job, very little legislation. I think that it would be ver...
DONALD TRUMP This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
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ROSAMUND PIKE Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne...
STACIA KANE And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our bro...
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BRUCE BERESFORD That's terrible to take advantage of people like that. I wouldn't have thought that he was that type...
MELISSA RIVERA Whether he was Ivan the Terrible or some other terrible person, is really irrelevant. The facts are ...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Katie was a girl, and not only was she a girl, she was terrible. Okay? There is no other way to say ...
KATIE HNIDA I have a plan."
He groaned. "I was afraid of that."
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H...
JULIA QUINN It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irre...
CASSANDRA CLARE Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.
Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?...
CASSANDRA CLARE [Rap and hip hop today] come across ... the same way that jazz was embraced by the [Lost] Generation...
BILL FERRIS This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Brad was getting muscled and couldn't get in the lane, and when he did he couldn't score. He just ha...
DAVE ROBBINS I feel terrible. He feels terrible. He keeps telling me 'Mommy, are the police going to arrest me?' ...
BERTHENA DORINVIL I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
MELISSA MCCARTHY Yet, Áine decided, was a terrible word. A terrible word, indeed.
KELLY BARNHILL That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some ser...
DAVID BRADFORD He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened ...
CHRISTINE KEELER My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.
BRUNO MARS I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
AUDREY HEPBURN An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.
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DALE REED I thought it was terrible. That was discrimination right there.
DANTE CALCOTE Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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KATIE HNIDA It was awful. I had a high fever and I was throwing up. Terrible. I felt just terrible.
CHRIS LEAK Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with kni...
SEANAN MCGUIRE Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The ...
JACK LONDON Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have...
FAY WRAY A terrible injustice was done to that river.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Bradley was a terrible senator
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ANDREW SISCO It was terrible. Those cabins. It was unreal.
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CRAIG SHERMER It was just a terrible feeling.
CRYSTAL MERILLAT It was a freak accident, ... I was just terrible.
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DON WRIGHT You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rare...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the worl...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD