Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Roger Maris

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
Dan Blocker

My dear, I don't give a damn.
Margaret Mitchell

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Armistead Maupin

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
Henry Fonda

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
Matthew Perry

No damn man kills me and lives.
Nathan Bedford Forrest

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. Johnson

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

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.
Holly Near

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
Al Lewis

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
Jimmy Connors

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
Albert Ellis

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
John Irving

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Jerry Pournelle