If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola_x000D_ _x000D_ Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.
I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
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