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The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

"Marco Rubio Shows Signs Of Second Wind After Key Endorsement". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.300, Scholastic Inc.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.10, Open Road Media

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.188, Vintage

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

Interview with Marc Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2010.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

I was terrible at school.

"'I'm a horrible bully'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.