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5f36ccc People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. good-and-evil temptation wickedness Terry Pratchett
1d54f24 My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. food wickedness Kurt Vonnegut
8927284 The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. virtue granny-weatherwax wickedness Terry Pratchett
d9e216a You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. vanity wickedness Günter Grass
4494666 Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. wickedness John Updike
3ae4d06 By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. men women dishonesty storytelling inequality gender evil wickedness Geoffrey Chaucer
be56535 A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. fear evil wickedness James Baldwin
1479d40 I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You oh God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. wickedness sin St. Augustine of Hippo
ac8033e In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying. lust pride wickedness Daniel Defoe
38bdb21 The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime. wickedness Gregory Maguire
ac5faf4 And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny. independance garth-nix wickedness Garth Nix