- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blot Quotes
Quotes on marks, memory, and what we wish away
These quotes use "blot" both literally and as metaphor, from an inkblot compared to abstract art to the historical stain of slavery one speaker urges we finally wipe away, if we're Able to answer hard questions honestly.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020