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• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  Will Self

  Art, Long, Literature

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• To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Waiting, Buttons

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• I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, Practice, People

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

  Terry Crews

  Years, Trying Something New, Feelings

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, America, People

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 21, 2015

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• Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Gone Away, Silence

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• With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Sometimes, Intention

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• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, California, Suspension

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.125, Zola Books

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• The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Strong, Reflection

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.727, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

  Ann Coulter

  Ideas, Feelings, Listening

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.172, Crown Forum

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• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

  Cate Marvin

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Party, Goal, Political

  Robert O. Paxton (2011). “The Anatomy of Fascism”, p.372, Penguin UK

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.

  Richard Branson

  Decision, Boards, Made

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other.

  Alfred Gough

  Dark, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Company, Persons

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Looks, Half, World

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mother, Teenage

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• Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.

  Michelle Beadle

  Careers, Choices, Feelings

  "Thoughts on a weekend". Michelle Beadle @MichelleDBeadle, www.twitlonger.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  Eleanor Antin

  Photography, Dubious, Fiction

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• I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.

  Laurie Foos

  Dream, Cockroaches, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.

  Laurie Foos

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.

  Melissa Febos

  Two, Creating, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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