Lurid Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
— Chinua Achebe
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid…
— Learned Hand
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Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
— Max Beerbohm
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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
— A.C. Grayling
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Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place…
— Joseph Conrad
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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper…
— Charles Dickens
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It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,…
— William McFee
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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
— Wyndham Lewis
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At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to…
— Camille Paglia
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A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high…
— Tim O'Brien
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why…
— Ann Brashares
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I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I…
— Joanne Harris
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Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
— David Foster Wallace
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Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until…
— Don DeLillo
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I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
— Sylvia Plath
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
— Joseph Conrad
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I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around…
— Sylvia Plath
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
— Joseph Conrad
Who Wrote These Lurid Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Lurid Quotes as follows: