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• Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Introvert, Pleasure, Scene

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.139, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Grief, Rose, Tree

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.45, Everyman's Library

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• Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

  Jennifer Egan

  Stars, Real, Book

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.262, Anchor

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• You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

  Clive Barker

  Sleep, Smell, Leaving

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• He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em." I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

  Craig Johnson

  Jobs, Coffee, Ems

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.64, Penguin

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• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

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• There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Regret, Grief

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus”, p.14

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• To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Matter, Life Is

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.21, Vintage

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• I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

  Amy Tan

  Dog, Strong, Eye

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• And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll

  Voice, Wonderland, Stories

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.169, Dynamite

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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, Sweat

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• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Air, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• ...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

  Douglas Adams

  Down And, Firsts, Serious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fear, Father, Looks

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.99, Anchor

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• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Flying

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• Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

  Anne Michaels

  Strong, Children, Past

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

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• By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Soccer, Mother, Children

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

  Thom Yorke

  Three, Radiohead, Beats

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• It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

  James Worthy

  Games, Long, Knees

  "James Worthy gives his two cents on the Lakers-Suns series". Interview with Mark Medina, May 17, 2010.

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• When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cameras, Done, Want

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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• There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it.

  Di Morrissey

  Country, Animal, Becoming

  Di Morrissey (2011). “The Silent Country”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

  Norman Nicholson

  Weed, Bird, Scare

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• Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

  Luke Davies

  Sadness, Comfort, Heroin

  Luke Davies (2011). “Candy”, p.213, Random House

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• I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

  Alain de Botton

  Greek, Rewards, Leisure

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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