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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. — Chuck Palahniuk
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have… — Orson Scott Card
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and… — Gary D. Schmidt
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder… — Markus Zusak
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone… — Neil Gaiman
When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it… — Chris Rose
people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives — Helen Prejean
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn… — Scott Lynch
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... — Ernest Hemingway
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. — Mel Brooks
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I… — Louis MacNeice
The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The… — Shel Silverstein
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's… — Chuck Klosterman
...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to… — Rod Serling
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other… — Erwin McManus
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness… — Maya Angelou
There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy. — John Christopher
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness. — Charles Baxter
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst… — William P. Young
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even… — Kurt Vonnegut
Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being.… — Cecelia Ahern

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