At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrage...ous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to d...iscover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You must ...allow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from... each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Church... or State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The air was clear. He seemed in ultimate peace ... Except that he had no eyes. Rigid and bright Upon the forehead, furred With a light frost, crouched an outrageous bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter goodbye than to go on working, writin...g, changing, enduring the slings & arrows of outrageous aging. Colette endured. And she wrote & wrote & wrote. Whenever I feel really depressed, I think of her & keep going.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most con...descends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »