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«Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock»
Author: Ben Lindsey | About: Trouble | Keywords: elders, shock
«When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.»
«The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.»
«The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.»
«Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark»
«Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.»
Author: Jules Renard (Writer) | Keywords: appeals, shock
«The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: shock
«The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.»
«What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party»
«To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people»

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