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• When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

  Taylor Swift

  Teenager, Thinking, Needs

  "Teen Choice Awards 2011: Taylor Swift Nabs Ultimate Choice Award" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 08, 2011.

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• Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

  Dean Koontz

  Grief, Sorrow, Might

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• Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love Is, Feelings, May

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Self, Connections

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.12, Head of Zeus

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• All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

  Penelope Lively

  Reading, Writing, Names

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• In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

  David O. Russell

  Song, Thinking, Intense Moments

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• Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

  Nick Rahall

  Compassion, People, Desire

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• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Order, Space, Different

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

  GG Allin

  Fire, Burning, Want

  "The Jane Whitney Show", July 16, 1993.

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• The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

  Austin Mahone

  Fans, British

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Economic

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• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  W. G. Sebald

  Civilization, Growing, Strange

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

  Meher Baba

  Impossible Situations, Purpose, Unions

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• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  M. John Harrison

  Fun, Opportunity, Imagination

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• The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Drunk, Herbs, Made

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• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  Thomas Nagel

  Occupation, Life Is, Human Life

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

  Jean Houston

  Mutation, Consciousness, Produce

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Long, Stories

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• Color is an intense experience on its own.

  Jim Hodges

  Color, Experience

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