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• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Knives, May

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

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• When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

  Agatha Christie

  Brain, Eating, Should

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Happiness, Bad Day, Laughing

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Keys, Voice, Trying

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• Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Wrinkles, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Relationship, Family, Smile

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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• Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was indignant. "I did not drink his blood. He's fine!" He poked the Chairman in the stomach. The cat yawned. "Second, you asked me if I was hungry when you were ordering pizza, so I said no, because I can't eat pizza. I was being polite." "That doesn't get you the right to eat my cat." "Your cat is fine!" Simon reached to pick up the tabby, who jumped indignantly to his feet and stalked off the table. "See?" "Whatever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Feet, Blood

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• My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dark, Voice

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• Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

  Charles Barkley

  Sick, Conservative

  "CNN Invites Charles Barkley to Trash Conservative 'Fake Christians'". Article by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. February 17, 2008.

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• George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

  Michael Hersch

  Iron, Fire, Brain

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gold, Purses, Bread

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• Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

  E. B. White

  Mean, Sick, Firsts

  "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White (Ch. IV), 1972.

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• Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.

  Christian Dior

  Two, Mouths, Months

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• I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Peace, Hurt, Boys

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• These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

  Mark Strand

  Mother, Kissing, Boys

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Knopf

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• I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

  David Foster Wallace

  Silly, Sadness, Two

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Air, Two, Leaving

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

  Wilson Rawls

  Lying, Names, Feet

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.

  Heather Brewer

  Heart, Shoes, Legs

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Sinkholes, Sexiest

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.680, Scholastic Inc.

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• The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Bees, Used

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

  Jim Parsons

  Competition, Wish, Care

  Source: deadline.com

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• The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

  Jack Benny

  Pain, Doctors, Waiting

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