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“don’t get afraid, get angry” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“I understand a fury in your words, but not the words.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that...” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.” Stephen King, Bag of Bones
“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“men in rage strike those that wish them best” William Shakespeare, Othello
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger. ” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.” Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” James Joyce, Dubliners

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