#revolting

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#brought #drink #had #horrible #i

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#fortune #living #mechanics #outrageous #prey

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. ↗

— Flora Tristan

#contrast #england #exists #intellectual #revolting

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#around #become #big #dad #going

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#i #just #love #now #revolting

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#full #generally #often #pretty #revolt

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#meet #read #revolting #said #somebody

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#before #jump #long #love #marriage