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Letter "N" » nerves
«Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.»
Author: Herbert Gold
| About:
Careers,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
boils, careers, extract, extracted, extracting, madcap, nerves, nightmares, the edge, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves»
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.»
«I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
breed, bundle, consent, lacking, nerves, reasonableness, reproducing, stud, studded, studs, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, Tahiti, The Nerves, tribal, wealthy
«Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, couples, erupt, erupting, erupts, flaw, get on, in practice, married couple, nerves, regularly, teeming, teeming with, teems, the colonies, vicious
«Monica: That's probably because their nerves are deadened from being so stupid.»
«Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.»
«My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad.»
«I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
drink, months, nerved, nerves, steadies, steady, The Nerves
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