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• When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

  Truman Capote

  Self, Hands, Deck Of Cards

  1979 In Vogue, Dec. Collected in Music for Chameleons (1980), 'Music for Chameleons'.

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• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

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• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Use, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.80, Pottermore

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• You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Brutal

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.671, Hamilton Books

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• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

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• Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.

  Jeaniene Frost

  People, Grace, Devil

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• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  Idris Elba

  Shapes, Youth

  "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Mean, Boys

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• I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

  Nora Ephron

  Senior, Iphone, Years

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• Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Knives, Bridges

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Horse, Crazy

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• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Nice, School, Slave Owners

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• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  Kamala Harris

  Smart, Thinking, Mind

  "Kamala Harris: Power Prosecutor". Interview with Dana Perino, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 14, 2011.

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• For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

  George Gissing

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Past, Men, Vanity

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• For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Nonconformity, Displeasure

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• Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

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• Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

  Roald Dahl

  Night, Eggs, Stolen

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• He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Long, Lines

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.284, Penguin

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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.

  Chelsea Handler

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Smart, Knowing, Cracks

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• I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Happiness, Smart, Make You Happy

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, House, Political

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• I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

  Anne Lamott

  Fire, Media, Gossip

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