"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable,……" — Jonathan Lethem

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• Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. — Albert Payson Terhune
• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice… — H. L. Mencken
• Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-) — Larry Sanger
• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope… — Mark Twain
• The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
• Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. — Khem Veasna
• Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever… — Raymond Sokolov
• Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors… — James A. Michener
• Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men;… — Xenophanes
• The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations… — James K. Polk
• Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike
• For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make… — Paul Theroux

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