"there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it."

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Source : Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

Josephine Pinckney

#Thinking Quotes #Inanimate Objects Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.”
“Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.”
“I think more people need to make out.”
“I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.”
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

Source : 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.
“We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.”
“It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.”
“I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter”

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