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• Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

  Richelle Mead

  Clothes, Looks, Driven

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Iron Crowned”, p.17, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.

  Ilona Andrews

  Teeth, Size, Violent

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.16, Penguin

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• I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when there’s no one left who cares what befalls them. Of the entire earth being rained on by all manner of demons bent on ultimate torture and sacrifice. Them ripping and shredding human flesh as they claw in a drunken frenzy fueled by their hatred of everything. Drinking blood in an orgy of terror...ahhh, the beauty of annihilation. There’s nothing like it.(Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Drinking, Sacrifice, Blood

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Rivers, Smell

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.209, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.

  George Monbiot

  Country, Fighting, Night

  "After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery.

  Muriel Barbery

  Children, Clothes, Ballet

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• Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

  Neal Shusterman

  Race, Bridges, Cities

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.

  Yukio Mishima

  Memories, Grief, Passion

  "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea".

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• Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

  Cate Tiernan

  Cute, Mom, Dad

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.39, Penguin

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking, Clouds, Remember You

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

  Woody Allen

  Eye, Rays, Machines

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• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Opportunity, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.12, Vintage

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• For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Book by Ray Bradbury. Chapter 38, 1962.

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• I cry. Evil dissolves, & love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan's under a frenzy of who love me & who shine.

  John Berryman

  Children, Home, Heart

  "The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems".

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• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Home, Air, Smell

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Sweet, Lying, Sea

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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• Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Two, People

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Deals

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• Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mother, Evangelism, Release

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• The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Stupid, America

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Hats

  "Very Interview: Justin Timberlake’s Screen Love Amanda Seyfried". Interview with Zoe Griffin, blog.very.co.uk. November 11, 2011.

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• Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

  Steven Pinker

  Media, People, Events

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