Scraped Quotes
48 quotes by 45 authors
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It…
— Truman Capote
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From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several…
— Corey Taylor
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Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.
— Darren Hayes
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We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the…
— Nicholas Wolterstorff
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped…
— Allison Mackie
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If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it…
— Richard Baxter
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I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having…
— Claude Monet
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My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders…
— William Shatner
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
— George Orwell
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I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone…
— Jane Green
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Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain…
— Douglas Adams
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The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its…
— Denis Johnson
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The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
— David Sedaris
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Hellooo.†I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.†She reached out and scraped her short nails over…
— Cheyenne McCray
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Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't…
— Janet Fitch
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My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.…
— Theodore Roethke
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How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is…
— Douglas Coupland
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