Bad sayings

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◆ At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

- Rachel Vincent99

◆ Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

- Alice Walker99

◆ Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

- Neal Stephenson99

◆ The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

- Erica Jong99

◆ If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

- Anne Rice99

◆ People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

- Anne Rice99

◆ Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don't give a damn, as long as they don't get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

- Karen Marie Moning99

◆ Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

- Israelmore Ayivor99

◆ I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

- Holly Black99

◆ The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

- Neal Shusterman99

◆ Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.

- G. W. Cooke99