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• An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.12, Courier Dover Publications

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• Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Ships, Sides

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• Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Heart, Character

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• Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Perfection, Elbows, Hours

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• Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Loneliness, Haunting

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• She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

  Ian Fleming

  Desire, Mountain, Found

  Ian Fleming (1963). “ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE”

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• ...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

  M.M. Kaye

  Life, Beautiful, Quality

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• Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

  Anne Mallory

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Demon, Rebellion, Transcendental

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

  Darynda Jones

  Voice, Long, Soul

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.74, Macmillan

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• I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

  Philippa Gregory

  Ambition, Fighting, Insane

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Apples, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Silly, Ivy, Hats

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• This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Adventure, Vegas, Hair

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• Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Vampire, Quality, Charismatic

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• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Common Humanity, Hands

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

  Rachel Caine

  Laughing, Interesting, Steps

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.84, Allison & Busby

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• I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

  Georgette Heyer

  Sleep, Giving, Imagine

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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• This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Book, Reflection

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

  Alessandro Baricco

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

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• I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Hands, Mind

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• I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.

  Karen Chance

  Numbers, Way, Chance

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1714, Penguin

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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