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• I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Children, Government, Parent

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• But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Spiders, Lasts

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• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fire, Giving, Gold

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• We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

  Everett Dirksen

  Past, Years, Different

  Congressional Record, vol. 113, January 11, 1967.

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• If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Discovery, Plot

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• I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

  Ben Hecht

  Valentines Day, Dream, Poet

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• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Religious, People, Literature

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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• I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

  Leon Uris

  Writing, Thinking, Joy

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• Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

  Sydney J. Harris

  War, Unique, Men

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• I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

  Mariah Carey

  Hurt, Shoes, Feet

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• When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Stupid, Book, Wonder

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Sorrow

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Courage, Determination, Inspiration

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• Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.

  Upton Sinclair

  Drama, Grief, Writing

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “Dragon's Teeth”, p.483, Open Road Media

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• I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Suffering, Looks

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

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• Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.

  Rick Riordan

  Enemy, Impossible, Annoying

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• You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

  William Goldman

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.161, A&C Black

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• Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

  Walt Whitman

  Garments

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.52, NYU Press

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• One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Snakes, Skins, Accepting

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Vibrations, Existence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Tired, Rights, Waiting

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, America, Agonizing

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Evil, Wife

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• Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Godly, Gifts Of The Spirit

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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