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  • It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

    - Sir Kingsley Amis
      One Fat Englishman, ch.14.

  • It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      Of the final moments of the1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

  • Savoir qu'il existe des passions et ne pas le ressentir, c'est affreux. To know thatthereare passions and tonot feelany, that is horrible.

    - Boris Vian
      L'Herbe rouge.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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