The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. — Theodore Hall Copy Share Image
“Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Sudden revulsion seized Amory, disgust, loathing for the whole incident. He desired frantically to be away, never to see Myra again, never… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me.… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind,… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
“A mixture of feelings- love, distaste, revulsion, pity- rose in my throat…There was an eternity to that moment, that see-sawing split- second… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
“My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men’s souls, could deprive humans of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother’s warnings, but I didn’t yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
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