Quotes About Provocation

I'm looking for a girl who's an exhibitionist.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Don't get even, get mad.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.

For $10 million, I'll fight my mama.

Be daffodils in June, you beastly things!

Those who want war will find causes, no matter how many of them you take away.

Greenberg cites the example of a planter who was challenged to a duel because he told a fellow planter that he smelled bad. "When the man of honor is told that he smells," Greenberg writes, "he does not draw a bath—he draws his pistol.

Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.

I want to bottle-fuck you slowly with my sunglasses on.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.

Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

But that's why you built the towers, isn't it? Weren't the towers built as fantasies of wealth and power that would one day become fantasies of destruction? You build a thing like that so you can see it come down. The provocation is clear. What other reason would there be to go so high and then to double it, do it twice? It's a fantasy, so why not do it twice? You are saying, Here it is, bring it down.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

If this makes me sexier then where are you going?

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Stun me. I mean it. Draw the gun and shoot. I want you to do it, Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the switch. Aim and fire. I want the volts the weapon holds. Do it. Shoot it. Now.

Fuck you. Show some amazement.

this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it. _Eric Packer

As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

I'M TRYNA SEE DA WHOLE TIDDY SON

This whole town is like a big Fuck You to Thoreau.