Quotes about damn
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“Damn, that werewolf melts my butter,” Mari sighed. “He’s so miserable,” she added delightedly.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

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“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
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“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Context: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.

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“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

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“You dress her in a wet T-shirt and make her carry the bags? Damn, Cade, I like how you roll" - Rok”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

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“Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Dead Witch Walking

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“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

Source: Runemarks

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“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

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“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all…”

Source: Water for Elephants

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“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

Variant: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Source: Pulp

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“War is just a damn nuisance.”

Mark Hanna (1837–1904) Republican United States Senator from Ohio

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”

Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist

Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

Chuck Palahniuk photo

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”

Source: Survivor

Charles Bukowski photo

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”

Variant: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

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“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

Lori Wilde (1958) American writer

Source: High Stakes Seduction

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“Damn! I hate farewells!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

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“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

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“Pass the damn ham, please.”

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”

Source: Les Misérables

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“Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!”

Fern Michaels (1933) American writer

The Blossom Sisters

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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)

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“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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“I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

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“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”

Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.