A quote about rotting meat and human interaction
September 22, 2021 2:02 AM   Subscribe

What is the quote and the source about rotting or rotten meat in human interaction?

What is the quote and the source about rotting or rotten meat in human interaction? Specifically the quote goes something along the lines of other people trying to hang their rotten meat on me - meaning the ugliness within them that they insist on imposing on others.

I think it is a quote from a play and not recent. I thought it might be Shakespeare but I can't find anything. There's the quote in Hamlet that 'Marcellus:Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' but that's not it and I can't find anything else. I could be wrong about the period and maybe it is more recent.
posted by Quillcards to Society & Culture (1 answer total)
 
Best answer: These are the quotes about rotten meat I could find:

“It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?"
– Holly Black

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
– Langston Hughes

"No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says 'you mouth stinks.'”
– Tshi proverb

“Humans always smell odd when change is in the air. Like rotten meat with a hint of papaya.”
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate

“Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.”
– Brent Weeks
posted by bryon at 1:02 PM on September 22, 2021 [1 favorite]


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