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• You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Kids, Want, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.

  CJ Roberts

  Dark, Light, Mentor

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• A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Block, Compassion, Illumination

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• Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

  Mario Cuomo

  Sports, Drug, World

  Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drama, Cities, Fantasy

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• I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

  Bellamy Young

  Meditation, Singing, Release

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want the kids to be all things to you, because that would be a terrible weight for them; and that where you really find solace a lot of the time is with your girlfriends.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girlfriend, Husband, Kids

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• I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, People, Littles

  Source: deadline.com

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• I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

  Solange Knowles

  Gratitude, People, Joy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for people romantically, about caring for children, but there's not a lot about caring for older people, eldercare. I was searching for a book that would speak to me, that wouldn't be sociological, that would offer some insight, some solace.

  Kyo Maclear

  Children, Book, Caring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.

  Nick Laird

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.

  Hyon Gyon

  Drama, Struggle, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.

  Mark Heard

  Sleep, Thinking, Common Sense

  "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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• The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Ocean, Hawaii, Mysterious

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1972). “Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress”

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• For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.108, Anchor

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• I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Mother, Determination

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Mind, Patient

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• The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.125, 谷月社

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• It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

  Mehmet Oz

  Ocean, Water, Meditation

  "Look Who’s Meditating Now" By Irina Aleksander, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2011.

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• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Age, Employment

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Talking, Details

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  Randeep Hooda

  Dog, Sweet, Home

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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