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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] -- Cormac McCarthy
Are you?" "What?" "Venomous?" Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see." "Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela. -- Nalini Singh
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. -- Chanakya
I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not. -- Claire Danes
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. -- John Updike
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. -- William Shakespeare
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. -- Steve Irwin
I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of. -- Romulus Whitaker
Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes. -- Romulus Whitaker
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. -- Barbara Olson
You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. -- Steve Irwin
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous. -- Steve Irwin
I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger. -- Todd Phillips
The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis. -- Diana Nyad
Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights -- Canibus
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. -- Immortal Technique
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist. -- Anthony Trollope
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over. -- Nevil Shute
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife. -- Rod Stewart
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them. -- Winston Churchill
But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons. -- S. S. Van Dine
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents. -- Robert Pierce

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