"The sky is purple, the flare of a……" — Poppy Z. Brite
"The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green."
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46 Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings…
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I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and…
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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic…
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Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight.…
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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that…
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places…
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to…
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Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
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More Altars Quotes
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes…
— William Hazlitt
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace…
— Peter Chrysologus
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be…
— David Brewster
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of…
— Adolf Hitler
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,…
— Myrtle Reed
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;…
— Edmund Burke
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The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across…
— Wess Stafford
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling…
— Luther Standing Bear
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