Dirtiness Quotes

• If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

  George Orwell

  Ordinary, Literature, Vegetarian

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  Frances Farmer

  Dirty, Night, Hands

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Naughty, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Suffering, World

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

  George Orwell

  Sweat, Sound, Pay

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

  Frank Iero

  World, Jersey, Knows

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• So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Happy Life, Knowing, Forever

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• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  George Washington

  Mean, Army, Soldier

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.441

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• Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• what pudor pejorocracy affronts
  how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
  what breeds where dirtiness is law
  what crawls
  below

  Charles Olson

  Night, Law, Shame

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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