Clamped Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab…
— Terry Pratchett
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I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for…
— James Agee
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author…
— Tom Stoppard
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...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
— Virginia Woolf
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There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
— Sherwood Anderson
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After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next…
— Markus Zusak
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Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth…
— Christopher Moore
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He f**ks even better than he looksâ€, I settled on saying. Several heads turned. I didn’t care; I was pissed. “And that beautiful face is…
— Jeaniene Frost
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But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My…
— Jenny Downham
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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I…
— Suzanne Collins
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You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold…
— Lili Wilkinson
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Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy’s nose as if she was a child. “Friends are the support bras of life.…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and…
— Franz Kafka
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His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think…
— Maya Banks
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Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out…
— Paul Celan
Who Wrote These Clamped Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Clamped Quotes as follows: