76 Quotes About Garbage

  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all."They're taking it away," I said. "Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all.

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  • Author Miriam Toews
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    The dump was kind of like a department store for Ray, but even more like a holy cementery where he could organize abandoned dreams and wrecked things into families, in a way, that stayed together.

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  • Author Cecy Robson
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    ...the putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of...snot gluing my fingers together.

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  • Author Veronica Roth
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    The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire."Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says."Wouldn't dream of it," I say.

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  • Author Don DeLillo
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    [We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    One can feel one's garbage of mind smell, from its indecent words since, within its reality, such ones have the lack of beauty and quality of character.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    I do not discuss the accusations that it was so; it was that. Personal attacks are one's mind garbage.

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