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• Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Fighting, Animal

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.153, Penguin

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• Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Literature, Modern

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Best Effort, Soul

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

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• All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

  Kim Harrison

  Backyards, Fairy, Inviting

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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

  Horace

  Latin, Conqueror, Greece

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• You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

  Ken Follett

  Kings, Wall, War

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.1204, Penguin

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• Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Brother, Men, Compassion

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that was Mariah Savage in his arms. "Look how cute she is. I think I want one. S'pose we can stop by Walmart and pick up one just like her.?" Chrystal glanced up from her cards and gave her husband a look. "Three o'clock feedings. Smelly diapers. Responsability." "Oh. Right. I'd have to grow up.

  Cindy Gerard

  Cute, Husband, Growing Up

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

  William Golding

  Animal, Humans

  W. Meitcke, William Golding (1984). “William Golding's Lord of the Flies”, p.49, Barron's Educational Series

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• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Self, Survival

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

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• I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

  Philippa Gregory

  Ambition, Fighting, Insane

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Confusion, Sorcery

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.48, Bantam

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• The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Lonely, Art

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Littles, Forests

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.3, Tyché

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• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fashion, Hero, Sacrifice

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Knowing, Rose, Joy

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

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• Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

  Nalini Singh

  Trying, Pearls, Golden

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.177, Penguin

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• Are we savages or what?

  William Golding

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.241, Penguin

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• If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

  Melina Marchetta

  Weapons, Existence, Ifs

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• The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not.

  Gordon Korman

  Morning, Two, Tea

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

  Eva Hoffman

  Justice, Diversity, Perception

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• How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.

  Pablo Neruda

  Running, Morning, Stars

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.15, Macmillan

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• The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

  Edward Abbey

  Enough Already, Missionary, Dangerous

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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