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Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw


Children must be considered in a divorce, considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. - P. J. O'Rourke


Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry V. Miller


Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. - James Graham Ballard


In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole filled with ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort. - J. R. R. Tolkien


Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle of water. [London] - The Women's Petition Against Coffee (1674)


An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful. - Queen Victoria


Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful or evil can become a source of beauty, joy and strength if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for he who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry V. Miller


A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. - Jonathan Swift

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