"When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her."

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Ian Mcewan

#Strong Quotes #Past Quotes #Bully Quotes

“Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it canâ€™t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said â€˜I disagreeâ€™ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.â€™”
“Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.”

Source : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. Itâ€™s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
“It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.”
“One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.”
“I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.”
“Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.”

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