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• The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Clouds, Boulders

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.

  Emily Giffin

  New York, Fall, Party

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• As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dark, Hands, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Social Pressure, Aim

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.357, Routledge

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• The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many times have you lied to me?' he asked in a soft voice. Alan replied, equally softly, 'I've lost count.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cutting, Voice, Arms

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Cat, Blood

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• I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

  Helen Fielding

  Children, Personality, Culture

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Loss

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• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

  Jules Verne

  Blow, Three, World

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• I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Holiday, Humor

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• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Charming, Obligation

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Waiting, Situation, Interaction

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.

  Lauren Kate

  Winter, Lips, Cold

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.311, Delacorte Press

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Blood, Cookies

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Vision

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• School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

  Ellen Hopkins

  School, Joy, Too Much

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

  Rick Riordan

  Self, Dust, Storm

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gryffindor, Said, Ifs

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

  John Marsden

  Peer Pressure, Peers, Blame

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

  Suzanne Collins

  Clever, Worry, Coal

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• Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Profound, Might, Form

  Doris May Lessing (1966). “Children of Violence”

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