Quote by Brian Kimberling Download Open image ““Dismemberment, even posthumous, is obscene.”” — Brian Kimberling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.” — d.h. lawrence Copy Share Image
“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which permits an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nothing would bother me more than if they found me strange at the office. I like to revel in the irony that they don't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“there was simply something unnatural and vaguely indecent about the dead and the living mixing in this way.” — Edward Trimnell Copy Share Image
“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in that ancient brain it knows that you are an idiot with a stick, to be endured, and that tomorrow there will be… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“A proper Indiana twister looks something like God got fed up with his spinach. God in this instance is about six years old .… — Brian kimberling Copy Share Image
“It was only when I returned that I viewed Indiana through such a jaundiced eye. While there I tried desperately to gather the whole… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“Well, that's one afternoon shot to hell,' I said. 'No,' said Shane. 'Other people are watching TV.” — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“A list of birds seen on a given day is also a form of prayer, a thanksgiving for being alive at a certain time… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“It takes no skill to find a bald eagle. You look for flat rabbits on country roads. Wait a while and the national emblem… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“She was not always honest, but she was never rude. "I've only been in his house once. He has a sofa and two bird… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“She said not to worry-- that she had done so many things she regretted and perhaps we should both agree that we had sprung… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
“From remote and sparsely populated Vermont, Indiana seemed hopeless; a collection of turtle-shooting subliterates--people opposed to evolution, pluralism, and poetry. And yet. Those leaves.” — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
