You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Brian: What is it darling? Sally: GOD DAMN IT, I'M GOING TO HAVE A BABY!
Alex: I've suffered the tortures of the damned, sir [with innocent reinforcement] Alex:
Burke Dennings: [to Karl] Cunting Hun! Bloody damn butchering Nazi pig!
Womack: Damn it, you're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know.
unknown: Is that a man? Jack Ridley: You damn right it is.
[repeated line] Marv: That there is one damn fine coat you're wearin'.
BR: [BR is reading Heather's damning article] Bitch. Nick Naylor: Whore.
[to Al, a homeless person] Patrick Bateman: Get a god-damn job Al.
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
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I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them—and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them, over and over. If I could have thought the words...
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Thanks,” I said, “have a great day.” And I turned to leave. Damn! I am such a coward. Next time I’ll get her number, I told myself, even though I said the exact same thing sixty-some dollars ago. I needed a plan. I needed an event to take her...
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Dear God, you are beautiful. I tried to forget, to pretend I did not need you, but it was no use. You haunt my waking hours and my dreams, and though I know if I stay with you my soul my soul will be lost and my life damned, I cannot stay away, nor c...
