Freak Quotes - Page 6

• I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

  Scotty McCreery

  Growing Up, Growing

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• We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Business, Tents, Clown

  As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV, September 10, 1986.

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• Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

  Etgar Keret

  Turtles, Rabbits, Ninja

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• I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

  Charles Bukowski

  Feel Better, Bars, Graveyard

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• Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Southern, Able

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.44, Macmillan

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• They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

  Katherine Dunn

  Winning, Use, Shame

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Mar 05, 2017

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• Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

  Christine Feehan

  Two, Cameras, Lucky

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• So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Circus, Enough

  Rachel Renée Russell (2012). “The Dork Diaries Set: Dork Diaries Books 1, 2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley

  Kelley Armstrong

  Drug, Cry

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.100, Penguin

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• What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Crush, Kids

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• This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Age, Century, Extremes

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.

  Rachel Vincent

  Father, Hands, Office

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.115, MIRA

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• Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

  Helen Fielding

  Parent, Single Women, Disappointing

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!

  Tite Kubo

  Sleep, Years, Needs

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• I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Hate, Love You, Trying

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, p.26, 1999.

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• Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

  David Bowie

  Eye, Gun, Space

  Song: Moonage Daydream, 1972

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• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Boys, Thinking

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• Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

  Charlaine Harris

  Men, Luck, Saws

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Talking, Long, Brain

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

  Katherine Dunn

  Dog, Fashion, Real

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage

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• I never had a brian till freak came along.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Brian

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• i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars?

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Laughing, Trying

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• "There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

  Alfred Bester

  Moving, Men, Doubt

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.

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• We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Barbie Dolls, May, Normal

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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