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Devoured Quotes
On being consumed by passion, fear, and change.
These devoured quotes recall childhoods spent absorbing comics and horror films with total focus, a fascination echoed in our Books quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
- Them
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.
- Exponentially
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them. Comics, however, taught me a lot about what makes a story arc work and how to bring a story to its natural resting place between issues.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was a teen, I was an expert at scanning people's faces, always in search of eyes like mine. I devoured glossy magazines, ever mindful of the language we used to talk about beauty. The sections on how to apply makeup intrigued me most precisely because their audience never included me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020