Pulp Quotes - Page 5

• We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Men, Islands

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• Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Paper, Bamboo, Logical

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

  Seth Rogen

  Dog, Character, Working Together

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• There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Age, Excellent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Looks, Crosses, Bus

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Age, Magazines, Lasts

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.78, Bantam

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• I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Fall, Thinking, Comfort

  Siri Hustvedt (2017). “The Blindfold”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

  Bruce Sterling

  Wise, Play, Ideas

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• We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Laughing, Fiction

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Cutting, Tree

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• I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

  Tom Waits

  Seeds, Left

  "'It's perfect madness'" by Tom Waits, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2005.

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• The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

  Luis de Camoes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Tree

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