Raw Quotes
702 quotes by 596 authors
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I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
— Douglas Coupland
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A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a…
— Jonathan Stroud
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,…
— Jon Krakauer
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My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,…
— Twyla Tharp
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at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is…
— Terry Pratchett
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This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?
— Daniel Handler
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
— Michael Cunningham
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen…
— Boris Pasternak
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I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.
— Sarah Dessen
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He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he…
— J R Ward
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Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke…
— Lloyd Alexander
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The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out…
— Ted Dekker
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They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in…
— Marian Keyes
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He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's…
— Annette Curtis Klause
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
— H. L. Mencken
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