"A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed."
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"A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed."
"It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy."
"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory."
"I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction."
"I was in a terrible mess in my childhood."
"No, communication is terrible!"
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."