Dirty Quotes - Page 25

• She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Pain, Feelings

  Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books

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• The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Kings, Powerful, Rome

  "Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 10, 2005.

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• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

  Steve Almond

  Distance, Fog, Despair

  Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

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• galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Hair, Hands

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• Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

  David Eddings

  Water, Thirsty

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Special, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Running, Children, Father

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.303, Modern Library

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• That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

  Tim O'Brien

  Real, War, Home

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Role Models, Roles, Rats

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Rivers, Dwelling

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.102, HarperCollins UK

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, School

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

  Truman Capote

  Faces, Shame

  "In Cold Blood".

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

  Malcolm X

  Glasses, Water, Muhammad

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• It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Pain, Discipline

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Should

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• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

  Frank Zappa

  Powerful, Fire, Lakes

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Snakes, Voice, Juicy

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar’s open!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Jobs, Cat, Hair

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• Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Men, Community

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• The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

  Don DeLillo

  Uncles, Personality, Mistress

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Use, Language, Life Is

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.

  P. C. Cast

  Water, Clean

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.815, Macmillan

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