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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent…
— Charles Baudelaire
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
— Walter Benjamin
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
— Thomas Paine
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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
— Jim Rohn
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While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter…
— David Mixner
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OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
— Sydney Pollack
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that…
— Dennis Weaver
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