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• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Building, Architect

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• Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

  Martin Yan

  Past, America, Age

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• Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

  Felix Dennis

  Addiction, Making Money, Makin Money

  "The nine lives of Felix Dennis: 'I've lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2013.

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• You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Intelligent, Political Will

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• Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, World, Wakes You

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• With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.

  Mike Mignola

  War, Vampire, Quiet

  Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden (2008). “Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire”, p.380, Spectra

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• Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Blue, Glitter, Safe

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• For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Roots, Growth, Crowns

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Meditation, World

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• ...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Real, Hands, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 20, 2015

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Arms, Seven, Should

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.36, Macmillan

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• People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

  John le Carre

  Wise, Thinking, People

  John le Carre (2005). “The Constant Gardener: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

  Dave Eggers

  Tired, Sleep, Glasses

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Numbers, Dew

  1819 'The Mask of Anarchy'.

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• A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

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• Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I’m not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus) Whoa, hang on a second. Let’s save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Boys, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.448, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Air, Cracks, World

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• My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Ever After, Worst, Dear

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Balance, Needs

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Moving, Blow, People

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• All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, Powerful, Fall

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