Raw Quotes
702 quotes by 607 authors
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If…
— Jodi Picoult
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One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
— Mira Grant
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It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the…
— Kenneth Patchen
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was…
— Charles Bukowski
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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,…
— Ilona Andrews
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With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every…
— Francine Prose
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
— Adam Johnson
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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your…
— Ann Voskamp
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Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is…
— Bart Yates
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With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other…
— Eric Metaxas
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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and…
— Neil Gaiman
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He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The…
— J R Ward
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A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions…
— Holly Black
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Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
— Charles Bukowski
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This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by…
— Charles Bukowski
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Mallory," he said, sounding raw and staggered and touched beyond words. "God, I was so stupid. So slow. I didn't know what to do with…
— Jill Shalvis
Who Wrote These Raw Quotes
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