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Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, ...

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What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men ...

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He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is...

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I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and pen...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, on...

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In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’...

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I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen ...

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The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the ...

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George WashingtonThe Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 39 (General Index O-Z List of Letters) - Leather Bound

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poo...

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You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, h...

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Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and ...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a tele...

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Hunter S. ThompsonGeneration of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very exi...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the gre...

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty mor...

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Jacques BarzunFrom Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute hi...

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She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven...

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up th...

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

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What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span ...

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Percy, you are dismissed from my service.""Me? Why, my lord?""Why? Because, Percy, far from being a ...

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Richard CurtisBlackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

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Robert EvansA Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, Th...

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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, b...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon ...

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Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling bac...

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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex i...

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