Primitive Quotes

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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive… — Evelyn Waugh
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana:… — Trevanian
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that… — Scott Dikkers
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… — Loren Eiseley
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between… — Dean Koontz
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he… — Thomas Sowell
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to… — Margaret Mead
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become… — Karl Jaspers
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more… — Henry James
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. — Henry Cloud
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing oneâ€™s life for a night of love with such an… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that… — Anne Rice
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and… — James F. Cooper
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which… — Michael Palin

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