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• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Children, Father

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.12, Knopf

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• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  W. H. Auden

  Healing, Heart, Night

  Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

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• We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

  Anne Rice

  Suffering, Force, Endure

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Feb 05, 2017

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• They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Kissing, Fire

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• And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Trying, Answers

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.328, Penguin

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• The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Attitude, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

  Larry Winget

  Reality, Humanity, World

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.89, Penguin

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• Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

  Obert Skye

  Two, Would Be, Stories

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• Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Blessing, Views, Point Of View

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• The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Prayer, Savages, Answers

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, p. 94, 2000.

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

  Frantz Fanon

  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mirrors, Cracks, Sides

  "The Lady of Shalott" pt. 3, st. 5 (1832)

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• The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pay

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

  Tom Robbins

  Blessing, Imagination, Preparation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.101, Bantam

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• The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Effects, Pure

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Games, Play

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• Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Music, Play, Sound

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.308, Hachette UK

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• The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Individuality, Needs

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

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• ...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

  Louis Bromfield

  Loneliness, Long Ago, Rose

  Louis Bromfield (1957). “The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .”

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• ... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Dust, Obscenity, Middle

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• Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flames, Agony, Causes

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• Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Block, Nice, Eye

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• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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