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• She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

  Nora Roberts

  Disappointment, Taken, Blow

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• It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

  Franny Billingsley

  Strange, Persons, Stills

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black

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• Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Familiar, Mines

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor

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• Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Philosophy, Wine, Cutting

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Monsters, Easy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Book, Snakes, Broken

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• Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Hands, People

  "The English Patient". Book by Michael Ondaatje, 1992.

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• Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alliances, Body, Slave

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Lonely, Independent, Science

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to wake up. Nightmares don't let you off that easily. They hold you in their clutches until they decided, in their own good time, to let you go.

  Steven James

  Dream, Sleep, People

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• It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now - but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Memories, Real

  Letter to Harry O. Fischer (late February 1937), in "Selected Letters V, 1934-1937" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 416-417), 1976.

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• In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

  Tanith Lee

  Fate, Survival, Now And Then

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• I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch

  Nicki Minaj

  Halloween, Green, Materialistic

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• All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Spring, Greed, Suffering

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• Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

  Robert Jordan

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.84, Macmillan

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• There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

  Conor Oberst

  Book, Two, Stories

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• Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

  Phil Callaway

  God, Christian, Hands

  Phil Callaway “Who Put My Life on Fast-Forward?: How to Slow Down and Start Living Again”, Harvest House Publishers

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• Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

  Charles Yu

  Mother, Past, Anchors

  FaceBook post by Charles Yu from May 11, 2014

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• The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Years, Challenges

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

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• When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.

  Robert Graves

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Time, Jobs, Military

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• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Desire

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• Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.

  Jim Courier

  People, Tennis, Sides

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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