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• Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Flames, Waiting

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• [Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

  James L. Brooks

  Simple, Thinking, Complicated

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 20007.

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• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Betrayal, Males, Damnation

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

  Arthur Boyd

  Art, Cutting, Thinking

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• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  Ed Markey

  War, Engagement, Terrorism

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• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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• Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, War

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.36, HarperCollins

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Economics

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• We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Privilege, Lord

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

  Moving, Fall, Blue

  "Interview: The Stars Of Lords Of Dogtown". Interview With Fred Topel, www.ign.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

  Alec Baldwin

  Rolling, Wagons, Creatures

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• There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Punishment, Ideas

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• I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Would Be, Able, Midwesterners

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• The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Appreciation, Hair, Nuts

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• No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Judging, Anxiety

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• This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Song: I Tremble For You, 1967

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• A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Atheist, Children

  "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

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• For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin

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• And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Men, Space

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• It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Adventure, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.30, Seven Stories Press

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• They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Giving, Desire

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• What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Country, Fighting, Desire

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Abuse, Tools

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• The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, People, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2625, Manonmani Publishers

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