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• He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Blood, Cities, Venice

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Rose, Black

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• Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Missing, Vampire, Morbid

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• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

  Hart Crane

  Dream, Memories, Blue

  Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor

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• Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

  John McEnroe

  Running, Tennis, Nerves

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• The others can’t see me,” said the little ghost. “I know,” I said. “My name’s Gwyneth. What’s yours?” “Dr. White to you,” said Dr. White. “I’m Robert,” said the ghost. “That’s a very nice name,” I said. “Thank you,” said Dr. White. “I’ll return the compliment by saying you have very nice veins.

  Kerstin Gier

  Nice, Names, White

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.150, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

  Ally Carter

  Hate, Wrath, People

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Water is the blood in our veins.

  Levi Eshkol

  Blood, Water, Environmental

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• But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

  Richard Marx

  Success, Congratulations, Forever

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Rain

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Pain, Heart, Winning

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• It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Expansion, February

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 7, 1945), 1961.

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• I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

  Theodore Roethke

  Summer, Rain, Rivers

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sarcastic, Eggs, White

  Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 134

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• He's a trellis for varicose veins.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic

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• I am not in the giving vein today.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Charity, Today

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 2, l. 115

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• I got ice in my veins
  Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
  Love in my mind

  Lil Wayne

  Hate, Rap, Heart

  Song: Drop the World, Album: Rebirth

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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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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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• The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

  R. S. Thomas

  Zero, Fear, Home

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• My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

  Roque Dalton

  Struggle, Love Life, Blood

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• If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

  Andy Eddy

  Kings, Queens, Princess

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• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  Ada Cambridge

  Pain, Eye, Law

  Ada Cambridge, “Honour”

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• Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Rocks, Wish

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