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• I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

  Anais Nin

  Snakes, Knowing, Battle

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• I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Clouds, Berries

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• But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

  Chris Wooding

  Choices, Mind, One Day

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• We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.

  Chris Wooding

  Race, People, Imagination

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• Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sound, Vowels

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.82

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• If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Men

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.

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• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Doctors, Medicine, Promise

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

  Paracelsus

  Health, Medicine, Drug

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• If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

  Noah S. Sweat

  Wine, Mean, Men

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• If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knives, Arson, Patterns

  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-

  Gordon Korman

  Juliet, Died

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• The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

  Slash

  Eras, Saws, Concerts

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Kings, Stars

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• I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Littles, Fantasy, Cherish

  "The Crying of Lot 49". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1966.

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• The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sweet, Wine, Use

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Apples, Teeth, Germs

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• A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

  Boris Pasternak

  Fall, Insomnia, Light

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• Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Husband, Father, Men

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• It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Stars, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Vices, Dominion

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Strong, Inspiration, Subtle

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2014). “Success”, p.817, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Use, Information, Violence

  "The Danger of American Fascism," in "The New York Times", (April 9, 1944); Quoted in "Democracy Reborn", New York, (p. 259), 1944.

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

  Simone Weil

  Tuberculosis, Disease, Soil

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Land, Tree

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.221

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