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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Jesus is the Rock of Ages for both Marxism and its less vulgar child, Political Correctness in American colleges and universities, today, even though Jesus’s latter-day ducklings would gag on the very thought.”
— Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech
Tagged: Secularized Theology, Liberalism and Christianity, Christianity Lives, Christian Leftism, Religion, Secular Theology
“It was not so much the book The Origin of Species as the talk about it that created such a stir.”
— Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech
Tagged: The Medium Is The Message?, Do Words Matter?
“One thing that drew me to Supreme initially was that I’d walk by their store and they’d be blasting music, creating an atmosphere that seemed designed to repel consumers. They leave a lot of money on the table for resellers. I wouldn’t say ‘they’re not in it for the money,’ because that’s their profession, but in a way, they aren’t. They’re in it to make something intriguing and subversive. And they wouldn’t mind being recognized that way, as opposed to just being a company with a logo that Drake wears.”
— David Shapiro, A Love (of) Supreme
Tagged: Supreme, Supreme Clothing, Business
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
— Barack Obama, Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’
“And down to the beach he walked, glistening in her glory, breathtaking, yes.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Love
“You are joined to me, but not you, you are a part of my destiny.”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“Her eyes pass over me as lightly as they do over the furniture.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Humbert Humbert As Object
“There was the day, during our first trip— our first circle of paradise — when in order to enjoy my phantasms in peace I firmly decided to ignore what I could not help perceiving, the fact that I was to her not a boy friend, not a glamour man, not a pal, not even a person at all, but just two eyes and a foot of engorged brawn.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Humbert Humbert As Object
“My heart was like snow.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Favorite Similes/Metaphors
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols.”
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf: A Novel
Tagged: Destroy, Bacchanal