- Nov 07, 2020
Coarse Quotes
When bluntness roughens the edges of culture.
These quotes explore coarseness as both flaw and tool — brutish perceptions of the soul on one end, ratings-driven media debate and shock-therapy culture on the other.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
- Milk
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cold brew coffee is more or less made the same way - by long-steeping coarse coffee grounds in unheated water - but it's not all created equal.
- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020