“You need to learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even… — John Rabe Copy Share Image
“But the roots of their hate and fear were too deep, and Lazlo saw hints of revulsion as their confusion smeared one… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have… — Charles P. Kindleberger 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'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
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
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
“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
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
Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art… — Jennifer Haigh 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
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
