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• Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

  William Saroyan

  Intelligent, Sometimes, Imbecility

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hate, Crazy, Fighting

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Crowds, Surrealist

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• life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Gun, Yellow

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.120, Random House

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• I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast he could hardly be seen, the Squire turned around and caught it without flinching. He held the bolt up to his nose and inhaled it lovingly.) Mmm. Rose. My favorite. (Otto) Perhaps we should leave you two alone. (Jess) Yeah, this does remind me a bit of the mating rites of the mean and the surly. (Allen)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Hurt, Hair

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.812, Modern Library

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• Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Religious, Real, Practice

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Play, Might, Faces

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• A book is a loaded gun.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Gun, Loaded Gun

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Sin, Smooth

  Raymond Chandler (1994). “Farewell, my lovely”, Thorndike Pr

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• Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

  Rachel Caine

  Ice Cream, Hands, Want

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• Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Lips

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Men, Opposites

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Monsters

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Thinking, People

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• We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Sea, Rude

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Book, Words Of Wisdom

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• I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spring, Order, Flying

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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• Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.

  Sara Shepard

  Meat, Mouths, Thanks

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• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

  Upton Sinclair

  Taken, Men, Games

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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• Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Years, Filthy, Five Year Olds

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.67, Penguin

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• An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

  Stendhal

  Play, Tables, Pistols

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.440, Tyché

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• He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweet, Book, Character

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• Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

  Marianne Williamson

  Generations, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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