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• I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

  John Mayer

  Needs, Saying No, Please

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• I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

  Joanna Page

  Rooms, Perfume, Cases

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

  William James

  Truth, Self, Giving

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• You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. "This is what happened once."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Winning

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• So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #3”, Vertigo

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• It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wonder, Breathe, Mockingjay Book

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1003, Scholastic Inc.

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• Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

  Erica Jong

  Culture, World, Way

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.97, Penguin

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• Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
  It surges, adding ever to its strength.

  Ovid

  Pain, Breasts

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• Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum.

  Ally Carter

  Winter, Aunt, Gum

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

  Tom Waits

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• I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

  Tucker Max

  Perfect, Decision, Taste

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Mean, Years, Maids

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan

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• Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Vision, Teammate

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.

  Lauren Kate

  Grief, Beats, Dangerous

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.275, Random House

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• How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Self, Order, Camouflage

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.

  Lore Sjoberg

  Stars, Powerful, War

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• The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Air, Breathing, Water

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

  Rachel Caine

  Office, Haste, Want

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• She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Dream, Broken, Pockets

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• I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

  John Updike

  Running, Golf, Opportunity

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• Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Eye, Love Is

  William Shakespeare (1847). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.148

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• For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

  Audre Lorde

  Luxury, Silence, Waiting

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

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• The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Real, Hatred

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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