A Quote by Ivan Turgenev

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev
Russian - Novelist
October 28, 1818 - September 3, 1883

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Mark Driscoll

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

George Clooney

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Flannery O'Connor

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Vincent Van Gogh

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Daniel Handler

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I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

Jason Segel

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