You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)
How long could we do this before you started bitching?" Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. "What?" "We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know. " I looked at him. "If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.
You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.
Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.
It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.
If character is destiny, the good are damned.