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The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk a...

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Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destr...

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... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief ...

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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation...

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I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears p...

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He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the u...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises ...

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Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself wit...

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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, toleran...

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I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

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By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work,...

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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...

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The best revenge is massive success.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, ...

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Frederick RolfeChronicles of the House of Borgia

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...

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Living well is the best revenge.

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no suc...

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I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...

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Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the B...

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It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the...

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Flies are the dead man's revenge.

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

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-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you h...

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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...

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Harlan EllisonThe Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winsto...

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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...

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It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully...

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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civili...

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Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intent...

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Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a ...

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J. P. DonleavyThe Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfat...

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Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is some...

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James MaceSoldier of Rome: The Legionary

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand...

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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...

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You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, ...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The best revenge is living well.

Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inex...

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It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with a...

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When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...

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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of h...

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But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition,...

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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...

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They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family...

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.

What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and th...

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If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i...

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Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

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Success is the best revenge.

Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...

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When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

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Larry McMurtryLonesome Dove

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy thin...

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Laurell K. HamiltonObsidian Butterfly

The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...

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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...

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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has a...

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Rev...

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He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare.

I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memori...

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I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're abo...

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But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endur...

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruel...

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No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do...

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Mervyn PeakeBoy in Darkness and Other Stories

What is your itinerary?""To meet my maker.""Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to...

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