Rawness Quotes

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Chance, Form

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• I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

  Edward Kennedy

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Esquire: The Meaning of Life, (p. 81), 2009.

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Comedy, Found

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

  Tom Robbins

  Disorder, Plasma

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

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• There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Goal, Want

  Max Lucado (1999). “He Still Moves Stones”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

  Pema Chodron

  Irritation, Choices, Patterns

  "Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield talk "The Wondrous Path of Difficulties". Interview with Michael Krasny, www.lionsroar.com. 2005.

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• The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Depth, Rolling

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• I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Apology, Men, Things In Life

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.

  Billy Gibbons

  Mean, Player, Mp3

  "Interview: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach". Interview with Ted Drozdowski, www.guitarworld.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

  Kelly Slater

  Sports, Appreciation, Time

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• I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

  Jenny Hval

  Communication, People, Giving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Opposites, Two, Environment

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• I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

  Isaac Marion

  Stupid, Want, Sticky

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• It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Thinking, Practice

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• He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never be able to explain to someone else. A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Knees, Able

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• It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

  Raoul Peck

  Country, Impact, Imagination

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• There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

  Alex Webb

  Light, Creative, Culture

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• I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.' It takes away the natural beauty of a person. I think Gisele [Bundchen] had just said something like there's no more rawness, like the little quirks. You know, I have a gap in my teeth and sometimes people take it away. But I'm like, 'I love my teeth.' You know, that's me.

  Lily Aldridge

  Thinking, People, Teeth

  "Lily Aldridge On Photoshop: ‘That’s Not Even Me Anymore’" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.

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• The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Children, Book, Sleep

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.3, Diversion Books

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• ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Hands

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• He [Daniel Craig] is mysterious, and I think that that's the thing Bond has to exude, that kind of mysterious edge. He draws you in, but he is also incredibly cool, you know, James Bond is cool and sharp and Daniel has that to a tee, and he's also got the rawness and an edginess to him that is slightly unhinged, and you're not sure what is going on there, and I think that is really intriguing and interesting. It is a lot weightier and gritty, and he has that.

  Gemma Arterton

  Thinking, Interesting, Edginess

  "Gemma Arterton Interview". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

  Lykke Li

  Light, Cities, Evil

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

  Patrick Grant

  Fashion, Wish, Gorgeous

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that when there's not an electric guitar or a nice beat to back it up. But, I enjoy challenges as a rule. I have always felt that what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger. I have learned to love with the rawness a little bit more and I know what I need to work on a little bit more as the tour goes on.

  Stephen Kellogg

  Nice, Guitar, Challenges

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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