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O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can… — Walt Whitman
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to… — Douglas Coupland
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond… — John Yoo
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of… — Charles Dickens
Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.. — Khalil Gibran
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. — Ambrose Bierce
Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my… — Lady Gaga
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else,… — Harry Crews
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. — Ginette Paris
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this… — Ron Reagan
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison… — Peter Kropotkin
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture. — Jennifer Echols
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when… — Sri Chinmoy
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their… — Denis de Rougemont
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and… — Jess Walter
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our… — Matt Smith
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity — Sharon Kay Penman
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. — James L. Brooks
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and… — Charles Bukowski
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to… — Arthur Boyd
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. — Ed Markey
This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f… — Ray Bradbury

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