Unrectified Quotes

#1. An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

Mary McCarthy

#2. She had the wild look of someone who hadn't slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

Emma Straub

#3. I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

Ayn Rand

#4. And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

Daniel Berrigan

#5. Be not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

#6. The wary fiend stood on the brink of hell, pondering his voyage

John Milton

#7. I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. Don't mix your heart with your liver.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

Frank Ocean

#10. My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

Antoniette Costa

#11. It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Maggie Nelson