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  1. Bill Bryson _ Made in America: An Informal

    Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon {a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers}, jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.
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  2. Douglas Coupland _ Player One: What Is to Become

    Rick, I'm holding a do-I-give-a-shit-ometer in my hand, and the needle's not moving. Shut up.
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  3. J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tales from the Perilous Realm

    He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing {mostly to himself}.
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  4. Raymond Carver _ Where I'm Calling From: New

    I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit."
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  5. Nick Hornby _ A Long Way Down

    How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.
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  6. J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tales from the Perilous Realm

    He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing {mostly to himself}."
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