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Quotes About Acid

The second morning he took me to Carol's and it was love at first sight to this very day, only she's up in San Francisco with children and I can't stand children. Carol was perfect. She looked exactly like me, only she was black. She was from the Bronx and was a proof-reader and she'd once been one of Walter's girl friends when he tended bar at Stanley's, a Lower East Side Bar. Carol and I took acid every chance we got.
~ Eve Babitz
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.
~ Haruki Murakami
Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
~ D H Lawwrence
You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face—who will love them now?
~ Mindy Kaling
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
~ Bill Bryson
O vase of acid, It is love you are full of.
~ Sylvia Plath
I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
~ Jim Capaldi
I also believe that the most common source of the particular acid the polio virus seems to prefer comes from the putrefaction of ice cream in the bowels. Polio strikes most viciously at children who eat large quantities of ice cream.
~ Henry G. Bieler
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
~ Johnny Rivers
Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.
~ Bryan Chapell
rain is acid... sex is death....
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I suspect we could have done the whole thing on acid … except for some of the people; there were faces and bodies in that group who would have been absolutely unendurable on acid.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
~ James Wolcott
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
~ Gail Simmons
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
~ Steven Wright
The mild creaminess of cottage cheese makes it a perfect blank canvas for almost any flavor combination, savory or sweet. Since it's so soft, I usually try to give it some textural contrast in the form of something crunchy. Brightening it up with acid is also a must.
~ Claire Saffitz
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...
~ Mohsin Hamid
the figure dropped like an acid tab into the mouth of Time.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
~ Kelly Lynch
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
~ Robert Stone
Goddard is as corrosive as acid hurled in the eye.
~ Neal Shusterman
As a result, much of the red Amazonian soil is weathered, harshly acid, and almost bereft of essential nutrients—one reason ecologists refer to the tropical forest as a "wet desert.
~ Charles C. Mann
Firewyrms (I refuse to dignify those things by calling them dragons; real dragons should be elegant reptilian predators, not sea slugs with wings that vomit acid).
~ Charles Stross
Have you ever fought an opponent you had no defense against? Like a fire breather or an acid spitter?" "Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me." "Really?" "No, I saw that character on X-Men . I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses.
~ Kresley Cole