"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
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"I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it."
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"Things have a terrible permanence when people die."
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"Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid."
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"Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life."
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"What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go."
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"A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss."
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"Some things are too terrible to be true."
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"Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen.""
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"Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly."
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"How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!"
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"Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!"
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"If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!"
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"September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy."
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"I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over."
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"Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing."
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"If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore."
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"I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy."
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"There is no evil as terrible as a woman."
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"In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail."
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