Quotes About Provocation

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it. Caterpillar blood, I said.

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat — just to see what ran out of it.

I was meeting the spitting boys today.

He said: "Go —— yourself.

I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

To which I'd like to append a variation on Lewis's Law ("all comments on feminism justify feminism"): the plethora of men attacking women and anyone who stands up for women in order to prove that women are not under attack and feminism has no basis in reality are apparently unaware that they're handily proving the opposite. 

when we done went and ripped all the gold HIS monograms off the anniversary towels and writ SHITHEAD on them with magic markers.

to let anything connected with Charlene get criticized, so I said, Mama, you're just jealous because you can't dance like Charlene. Mama said, Shut your filthy mouth. Then I said, Shut your filthy mouth.

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34

To hell with you, Buddy. No policeman wants to protect a goddamned atheist. I hope somebody bloodies you up good.

Think about three hundred Donald Trumps walking around here shopping for niggers. 'Look at that one, didn't they shine him up nice? What if I buy that other one, will you make me a deal?' " That

interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. "How like art

The more so because, among its repetitions, it is always looking for new ways to prick you.

Do not imagine that art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket

Ipak, ništa tako ne može da natera ljude da pametno misle kao dobra katastrofa.

Do you deliberately try to provoke me?" He waited for her denial. An apology, too. He didn't get either. "Yes, I do believe I am trying to deliberately provoke you.

She started three wars the first week.

had made them stop. "Did they throw stones at the man who spit in his drink?" Judith wanted to know.

Quiero que ella me vuelva loco de celos. Deseo que me haga sospechar que ha ido demasiado lejos. Quiero que haga eso.

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But then again, representations are not (more or less faithful) pictures of what is, but productive evocations, provocations, and generative material articulations or recon-figurings of what is and what is possible.

Stop flirting. With you, every sentence is an offer. "And with you, every sentence is a challenge.