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Quotes About Rawness

This is a book of raw flesh.
~ Helene Cixous
I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?
~ Orhan Pamuk
She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.
~ D. H. Lawrence
They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne'er-do-weels, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
These are not pretty things, but they are true things.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!
~ Harry Crews
Being raw means connecting to other people's trials and noticing how we all have to find our own answers; we all have to learn how to show up and breathe without grasping for something to deliver us from our own pain. When you resist your own rawness and pain, you only create more pain for yourself.
~ Heather Havrilesky
Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.
~ lawton j f
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
~ Martin Puryear
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
~ Kevin Patterson
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.
~ Jenny Hval
Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.
~ Rose Leslie
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I want, inside this night, life raw and bloody and full of saliva. I want this word: splendidness, splendidness is the fruit in its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want distances. My wild intuition about myself. But my main thing is always hidden. I am implicit. And when I make myself explicit I lose the humid intimacy.
~ Clarice Lispector
La bondad era tibia y sin consistencia, olía a carne cruda guardada durante mucho tiempo.
~ Clarice Lispector
But he thinks, no, none of us can stand anything. Scrape our skin, and beneath it there is an infant, howling.
~ Hilary Mantel
To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.
~ Victor J. Banis
Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk
~ Gary Crowley
if we look below the surface of the aggression, we'll generally find fear. There's something beneath the solidity of anger that feels very raw and sore.
~ Pema Chodron
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
~ Philip Roth
I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.
~ Barry Keoghan
I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
~ Dave Grohl
You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
~ Dylan O'Brien
All I know is he's letting me see it, and him, and he is exactly what he preaches. Raw and honest, and intense and I believe in this moment that we are a rainbow of the same colors, none of them bright or beautiful. We are the many shades of gray and black, hoping to find a glimmer of light in each other, not more darkness.
~ Lisa Renee Jones