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• His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sports, Appreciation, Drama

  H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.161, Wildside Press LLC

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• I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

  David Thewlis

  Feel Better, Feeling Sad, Want

  David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

  Frances Mayes

  Running, Dream, Home

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• It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

  Tennessee Williams

  Reality, Artist, Doe

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh…and the players were all baboons.

  Rick Riordan

  Basketball, Team, Winning

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

  Paulo Coelho

  Matter, Moments, Justify

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• Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  One Day, Noble, Firsts

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

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• My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Green, Way

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.183, Delacorte Press

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• • Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Two, Smell, Numbers

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• I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

  Eve Ensler

  Taken, Years, Differences

  "Writing plays, righting wrongs" by Beth Dozoretz, www.politico.com. September 24, 2013.

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• A joy as intense as pain

  Nicholas Sparks

  Pain, Joy

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• There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Struggle, Men, Battle

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.561, Dell

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• You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Storm, Shocking

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• That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

  Richelle Mead

  Memories, Eye, Passionate

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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• Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Memories, Reading

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• Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?

  Holly Black

  Book, Reading, Knowledge And Power

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• Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Regret, Heart, Curiosity

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• But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "And?" I challenged. "That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense. I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair." "I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Eye, Unhappy

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• I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Voice, Matter

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• Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Scary, Feelings

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.167, Macmillan

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• You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Fictional Character

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