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• Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

  Margaret Atwood

  Here And There, Half, Fertility

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cold, Praise, Well Dressed

  Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.171, Read Books Ltd

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• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Independence, Emotion, Assets

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• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the "popular" choice.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Passion, Creativity, Expression

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it is caving in on itself. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Hunting, Fishing

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wife, Chance, Telling The Truth

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

  Maya Angelou

  Tragedy, Matter, Boring

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.894, Modern Library

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• ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Wall, Exercise

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.101, Penguin

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Locks

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Want, Behavior, Perfume

  Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”

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• Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Naked, Taste

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Dream, Essence, Unhappy

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• Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

  John Ford

  Freedom, Toil, Strive

  John Ford (1811). “John Ford's Dramatic Works”, p.139

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• If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Growing Up, Son

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• You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

  Elvis Presley

  Friendship, Dog, No Friends

  Elvis Presley (2005). “Elvis Presley”, p.44, Berklee Press

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• I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms.

  Sam the Sham

  Girl, Animal, Snakes

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• It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

  Charles Portis

  Rocks, Progress, President

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• I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

  Sean William Scott

  People, Bigs, Feels

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• In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

  Brett Favre

  Nfl, Mouths, Taste

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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