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«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
«New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.»
«It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.»
«Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman»
«It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.»
«Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.»
«It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Keywords:
association,
dearly,
likeness,
memorial,
memorials,
monstrous,
nearness,
noblest,
portraits,
sanctification,
The Association
«It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Funny,
Gossip,
Truth
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Keywords:
absolutely,
against,
behind,
entirely,
go about,
monstrous,
nowadays,
perfectly,
saying,
The Way
«Ingratitude is monstrous»
«One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.»