“Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
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“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Actually a statement by Joseph Brodsky, as quoted in The Balancing Act : Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership (1996) by Kerry Patterson, p. 437.
However, compare to the similar Bradbury quotes from 1993 (Seattle Times) and 2000 (Peoria Journal) above.
Misattributed
“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
“About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you”
“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”