"The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change."
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"Anger is the fruit of rotten roots."
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"Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten."
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"The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser."
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"New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages."
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"What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'"
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"You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you."
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"I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld."
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"I could write stories just as rotten."
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"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?"
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"A rotten case abides no handling."
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"There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order."
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"Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts."
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"They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary."
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"A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it."
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"Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently."
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"There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it."
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