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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

  Harper Lee

  Wall, Believe, Leaving

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• He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Reason, Courses, Wrong Reasons

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Heart, Agony

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Order, Knives, Voice

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.297, Taylor & Francis

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• I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Warrior, Turtles

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• Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  Frank Gehry

  Motivational, Work, Insecurity

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• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  Ina Garten

  Thinking, Ems, Guests

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• There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

  Jennie Finch

  "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  People, Sitting Down, Tables

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• Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Helping, Moments, Enjoy

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Smell, People

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• After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dirty, Makeup, Alcohol

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

  Arj Barker

  Regret, Sleep, Decision

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• When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?

  Kevin James

  Orange, Needs, Rope

  "Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff", 2001.

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• Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Effort, Wages, Pay

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• Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Determination, Hard Work, Blood

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Angel, Alive

  Anne Rice (2016). “The Young Messiah (Movie tie-in) (originally published as Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt): A Novel”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Two, Chocolate

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• There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Years, Skulls, Lessons

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Littles, Six

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• My sweat smells like peanut-butter.

  Wendy Mass

  Smell, Peanut Butter, Peanuts

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

  Boris Pasternak

  Confused, Love You, Jealous

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• The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Men, Usual

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