Unpalatably Quotes & Sayings

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. — Joel-Peter Witkin

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book. — Louis L'Amour

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds. — Doug Dorst

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it. — Michael Ritchie

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised. — Sabrina Childress

He found several thick chocolate bars - probably Hershey's military-issue Ration D bars - divided into segments and packaged in wax-dipped containers to resist gas attack. Designed to be unpalatably bitter so soldiers would eat them only in dire circumstances, they were formulated to be highly caloric and melt-resistant. — Laura Hillenbrand

The man raised his glass, 'To you!'
Can't you think of a wittier toast?'
Something was beginning to irritate him about the girl's game. Now sitting face to face with her, he realized it wasn't just the words which were turning her into a stranger, but that her whole persona had changed, the movements of her body and her facial expression, and that she unpalatably and faithfully resembled that type of woman whom he knew so well and for whom he felt some aversion.
And so (holding his glass in his raised hand), he corrected his toast: 'O.K., then I won't drink to you, but to your kind, in which are combined so successfully the better qualities of the animal and the worse aspects of the human being. — Milan Kundera

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke