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• Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

  Perry Brass

  Love, Fall, Men

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass

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• Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sober, Enough, Tyrion

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• Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Swimming, America, Talking

  "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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• I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

  Scott Lynch

  Ends, Suspects

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.209, Del Rey

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• To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

  Kevin Powers

  Risk, World

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Clay, Cracks

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

  Julian Assange

  Sea, Bridges, Support

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• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Swimming

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

  Amy Lowell

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Thinking

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Goes On, Shelter, Stones

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• We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Misery, Walk By Faith

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.125, Charisma Media

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• Promises. I was drowning in promises.

  Richelle Mead

  Promise, Rose Hathaway, Blood Promise

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.264, Penguin

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• You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Someone You Love, Want, Scar

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• If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Silence, Despair

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.21, RH Childrens Books

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• What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

  David Doubilet

  Photography, Voice, Giving

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• They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

  Warsan Shire

  Eye, Air, Silence

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Future

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

  Jonathan Banks

  Girlfriend, Knives, Might

  "Q&A – Jonathan Banks (Mike)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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