Despentes Quotes

#1. Chess is not dominoes

Garry Kasparov

#2. I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.

Virginie Despentes

#3. The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

Virginie Despentes

#4. I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by 4:00.

Henny Youngman

#5. I'm one of those pesky Brits.

Damian Lewis

#6. 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Anonymous

#7. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

Tom Wolfe

#9. What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

Virginie Despentes

#10. Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him. But all the women-children that hath not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Anonymous

#11. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.

Virginie Despentes

#13. What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that subversive or out of control.

Virginie Despentes

#14. It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior.

Max Lucado

#15. Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#16. When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said one black man in the White House doesn't make up for one million black men in the Big House.

Angela Y. Davis

#17. Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.

Virginie Despentes

#18. All I had left from down in the murky depths was the ability to look up, to find a way back out.

Max Henry