1.
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!
Vladimir Nabokov
2.
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
Eddie Van Halen
3.
I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.
Jake Pitts
4.
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.
Frans de Waal
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You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Margaret Mitchell
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There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
Ti-Grace Atkinson
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We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
Molly Ringwald
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Embrace nature's brutal perfection.
Boyd Rice
10.
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
Jack Kerouac
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
Keith Richards
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
Cesare Pavese
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I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.
Cameron Diaz
14.
It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!
Shawn Michaels
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Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
Brett Weston
16.
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
Enya
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We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
Arthur F. Burns
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
19.
Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.
Lori Palatnik
20.
You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.
Todd Barry
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
Ani DiFranco
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Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
George Agnew Reid
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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
Douglas Preston
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Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
Gustave Herve
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I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
Jack Williamson
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Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.
Diablo Cody
29.
I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.
Julianna Baggott
30.
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
Dan Savage
31.
I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
Mike Tyson
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Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen
John Kennedy Toole
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It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.
Charlie Hunnam
34.
I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.
Stephenie Meyer
35.
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.
Kevin Spacey
36.
You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.
Tucker Max
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There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
Roger L'Estrange
39.
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.
Jim Tully
41.
I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.
Minnie Driver
42.
I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me.
David Krumholtz
44.
Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.
John Michael McDonagh
45.
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
Bertrand Russell
46.
I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.
Zach Condon
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I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.
Richard Gere
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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
Zoe Akins