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#monstrous

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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.


Isadora Duncan


#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

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.


Eugene Field


#came #explosive #extreme #human #human thought

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.


David Korten


#assets #consuming #deficit #flows #into

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.


Jean Rostand


#enough #few #great #great minds #hearts

Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men: when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn. To this day he thinks of what he termed years later in a sermon 'savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.' ("The Wendigo")


Algernon Blackwood


#monster #monstrous #nature #primeval #primeval-man

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.


John le Carre


#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.


Lord Acton


#among #defenders #error #fails #find

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.


Graham Greene


#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.


Elizabeth Hurley


#being #chaotic #controlling #desk #i

I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.


Randy Quaid


#am #being #believe #career #control






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