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• I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

  Brian Tee

  Team, Book, Men

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• Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Simple, Gun

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• The leopard does not change his spots.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Doe, Leopards

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• Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Nice, Quiet, Stink

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Facts, Sometimes, Reaching

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

  Gena Showalter

  Powerful, Hate, Feelings

  Gena Showalter (2006). “Oh My Goth”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

  Christopher McDougall

  Animal, Thinking, Endurance

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Glasses

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

  Nalini Singh

  Love Is, Teeth, Fierce

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.45, Penguin

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• In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  A. S. Byatt

  Weed, Eye, Fire

  "Reading while you're wonder-wounded" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the
  lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

  Malcolm Forbes

  New York, Lobster, Size

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• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

  William Golding

  Mean, People, No Fear

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.84, Penguin

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• Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

  Ava Gardner

  Hurt, Cheer, Thinking

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• Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

  Gordon Strachan

  Despair, Depth, Matter

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• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Fighting, Dragons

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• I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

  Robert Englund

  Teenager, Giving, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Play

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• Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Night, Sharpening

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• The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Drunk, Scent, Magnolias

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Angel, Garden, Wings

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained—an urn in daylight.

  Margaret Atwood

  Weed, Children, Growing Up

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• There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Silence, Risk

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'." "I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help." "Sure you can. Never trust the dead.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Believe, Hands, Tools

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

  Stephen King

  Running, Dog, Paws

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.

  Pittacus Lore

  Mom, Eight, Talking

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