Eras Quote by Dennis Cooper Download Open image “Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?” — Dennis Cooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eras Feels Guillotine Nostalgia
I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've been watching things like 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' since I was 5. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. The scaffold is an image. It is not merely a framework, a machine, a lifeless mechanism of wood, iron, and rope. It is as though it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.” — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.” — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in front of his own projector, then… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era. — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
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