#perverse

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.


Thomas Mann


#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.


Robert Musil


#deny #more #nothing #perverse #possibilities

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.


Richard Russo


#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.


Warren Buffett


#difficult #easy #human #likes #make

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.


Ron Chernow


#dangerous #effects #hold #individual #market

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.


Terry Gilliam


#down #go #i #like #me

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.


Gustave Flaubert


#belly #frenetic #hair #his #i

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.


Hedy Lamarr


#anyone #else #feign #great #i

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.


Stephen Jay Gould


#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.


Kevin McDonald


#hall #kids #perverse #silly #would