“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?”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Misattributed
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
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.”
Larry Niven book Protector
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
“About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist