Stupefying Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
— Isaac Babel
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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
— Robert Browning
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To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
— Avital Ronell
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The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not…
— Jack Goody
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Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
— Herbert Marcuse
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
— Taisha Abelar
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I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one…
— Stefan Zweig
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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic…
— Lester Bangs
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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science,…
— Kirk J. Schneider
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
— Quentin Crisp
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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
— Iain Banks
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge…
— Alain de Botton
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It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library,…
— Rachilde
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What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this…
— Thrity Umrigar
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The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe,…
— Diane Ackerman
Who Wrote These Stupefying Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Stupefying Quotes as follows: