#disgust

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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.


Linda McCartney


#hard #i #i think #lightweight #must

Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.


Hugo Ball


#disgust #respect #age

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?


Jennifer Egan


#democracy #disgust #language #web #wit

The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?” “Everything — everything I heard! That is why — it is for that reason — he thinks it means Lily Evans!” “The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July —” “You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down — kill them all —” “If she means so much to you, surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” “I have — I have asked him —” “You disgust me.


J.K. Rowling


#anguish #disgust #lily-evans #prophecy #severus-snape

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.


Pola Negri


#love #lovers #love

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.


Walter Benjamin


#originally #touching

I know that man started animal husbandry thousands of years ago, and I think it’s disgusting. Men and animals should never be allowed to marry. Or have sex. And maybe not even engage in necking, unless it’s a man and a giraffe.


Jarod Kintz


#disgusting #funny #marriage #funny

If we happened to be in rehearsal downstairs in my room and a neighbor padded across the lawn to rap gently on the window and ask us to please be more quiet, Natalie might simply lift up her skirt and mash her vagina against the window while extending her middle finger.


Augusten Burroughs


#humor #hysterical #vagina #humor

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.


Karen Armstrong


#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.


Hannah Arendt


#fifties #know #these #you