Crude Quote by William Burroughs Jr

“His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose”

— Kōbō Abe

“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.”

— Patrick Süskind

“...he felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“It wasn’t that he was unhelpful, but he had the kind of vague, cheerful helpfulness that serious men soon learn to dread.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He despised the words leaving his mouth, hating the way they made him feel. Exposed. Open. By a girl who didn’t weigh more than…

— Alessandra Torre

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.”

— Agatha Christie

“I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.”

— Elaine Dundy

“He was a sensitive man and many people had caused him anguish.”

— Gil Brewer