#repels

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#i #i do #inventing #make #millions

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. ↗

— David Antin

#audience #choice #get #i #language

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#anything #human #human love #ill #keeps

...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it... ↗

— John Geddes

#evil #mesmorize #repels #beauty