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• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Men, Humanity, World

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• Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sitting, Feels, Knows

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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• I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Inspiring, Women

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• I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

  James Van Der Beek

  Men, Body, Clown

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• People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wisdom, People, History

  "Justice at last?" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

  Wes Anderson

  Lonely, Memorable, Thinking

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

  John Connolly

  Sorry, Grief, Heart

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

  Don Adams

  Wife, Catholic, Church

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• A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

  Dave Barry

  Laughter, Anxiety, World

  "Dave Barry Elegy for the humorist" by Bryan Curtis, www.slate.com. January 12, 2005.

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• We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

  David Cameron

  Pounds, Welfare, Billions

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

  David Cameron

  Hands, Issues, People

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.

  Charles Yu

  People, Broken, Machines

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.164, Vintage

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• He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hurt, Feelings, Looks

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “Between Here and Forever”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wall, Air, Bird

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.7, Penguin

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• Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

  James Dashner

  Animal, Hunger, Scorch Trials

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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• They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Mad, Water

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• He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sea, Vapor, Firsts

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• Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters through my closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm not afloat in dreams.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Winter, Light

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

  Joshua Ferris

  Running, Long, Contradiction

  Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

  John Lydon

  Song, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Wise, Stars

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.30, Penguin

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• I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

  Sloane Crosley

  Zero, Mean, Skills

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin

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