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• whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Mind, Drones

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• Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Important, Attention

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Stars, Flower

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

  Jordin Sparks

  Heart, Thinking, Needs

  Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 13, 2012.

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• It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Years, Dozen

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• Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

  Ally Carter

  Believe, Heart, Long

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Real, Lying, Heart

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 20 (1871 - 1872)

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• It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Space, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1528, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Block, Writing

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

  Junsu

  Heart, Stronger, Want

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• I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

  Franz Kafka

  Strong, Lying, Heart

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.37, Schocken

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

  Jon Foreman

  Heart, Sunset, Phones

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• There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

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• My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Prayer, Heart, Longing

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• Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Christian, Heart, Heaven

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• The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, World, Demand

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• You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

  Kevin Spacey

  Heart, Risk, Directors

  "Interview: Kevin Spacey and Jameson “First Shot” Film Competition Winners". Interview with Jeff Hamada, www.booooooom.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Views, Years

  Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black

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• Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Past, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.109, Xist Publishing

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• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

  Jessye Norman

  Love, Children, Heart

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• My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

  Tyga

  Heart, Emotional, Echoes

  Song: Moving Backwards

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• Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
  Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
  Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Peace, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.49, Wordsworth Editions

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• I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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• You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

  George M. Cohan

  Heart, Eye, Home

  "Song: You're a Grand Old Flag". 1906.

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