Acid Quotes - Page 4

• Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moles, Way, Faces

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

  Bill Watterson

  Tests, Failing, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pops, Enjoy

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• As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them. "Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?" "Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!

  J. K. Rowling

  Goodbye, Congratulations, Dragons

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• I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Batteries, Veins, Muscles

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cutting, Solitude

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• I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Spring, Sunset

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• Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Dog, Cutting

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  Michael E. Mann

  Cancer, Rain, Mean

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

  George Sanders

  Art, New York, Drama

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• Wheatgrass juice is the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth, the blood of all life. The elements that are missing in your body's cells-especially enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and nucleic acids can be obtained through this daily green sunlight transfusion.

  Viktoras Kulvinskas

  Cells, Blood, Missing

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• Once I slapped a rapper with mace,
  Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait...
  I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

  Song: Rapid Eye Movement, 2014

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• People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Memories, Years, People

  Jacqueline Susann (2015). “Valley of the Dolls”, p.388, Tiger LLC

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• Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Jumping, Pits

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• Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Naughty, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

  Libba Bray

  School, Done, Frightening

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Dog, Boys, Names

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

  David Eagleman

  Aliens, Strings, Blueprints

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.168, Vintage

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• There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

  Justus von Liebig

  Spring, Fall, Mean

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• There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Men, Guy, Acting

  "Shia LaBeouf took acid for film role" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

  Rivka Galchen

  Giving Up, Writing, Flames

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• I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

  Dave Grohl

  Angel, Thinking, Clouds

  Maxim Magazine, January 2008.

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• Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

  Alan Lightman

  Depression, Sadness, Arousal

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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