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Terrible Quotes - Page 7

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.241, Vintage

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Roger Ebert's review of "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III", www.rogerebert.com. February 12, 2013.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.516, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt