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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

  Roger Zelazny

  Believe, Mirrors, Blood

  "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1972.

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• I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

  Winona Ryder

  Depression, Crazy, Dark

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• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Loss, Evil, Meditation

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• I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

  John Bunyan

  Hard Work, Despair, Praying

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.441

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• I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed with thought, and two to believe, first that of an existence called spirit, of which we have neither evidence nor idea, and then secondly how that spirit, which has neither extension nor solidity, can put material organs into motion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Ideas, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.153

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• Mexicans who come to America today end up opposing assimilation. They say they are "holding on to their culture." To them, I say, "If you really wanted to hold on to your culture, you would be in favor of assimilation. You would be fearless about swallowing English and about becoming Americanized. You would be much more positive about the future, and much less afraid. That's what it means to be Mexican.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, America, Mexican

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.

  John Cowper Powys

  Moving, Life And Death, Darkness

  John Cowper Powys (1920). “The Complex Vision”

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• She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Ignorance, Hands, Evil

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  School, Law, Gnats

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Insult, Corinthians

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “The Nonesuch”, p.285, Random House

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• ... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

  Jean Webster

  Running, Fall, Heart

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• The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Cows, Finale, Whole

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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• It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

  Phil Vischer

  Second Chance, Whales, Punishment

  "Behind the Scenes: Jonah and the Bible". "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie", 2002.

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• So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  College, Circus, Sideshows

  "The Priceless Gift - The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson".

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• In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.

  Hugh Laurie

  Party, Book, Fall

  Hugh Laurie (2011). “The Gun Seller”, p.279, Random House

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Enthusiasm, Oblivion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1839). “On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each”, p.223

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• He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

  Susanna Clarke

  Gentleman, Substance, Bogs

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.602, A&C Black

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• The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea, Flannels, Slippers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1200, Delphi Classics

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• White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Blue, Purple, Yellow

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Dream, Pride, Rejection

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• The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

  Thomas Paine

  Whales, Ideas, Miracle

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.46, e-artnow

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• "Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

  Robert M. Price

  Mean, Choices, Atheism

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