"...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known."
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"Write while the heat is in you."
"That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life."
"Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love."
"In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources."
"Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat."
"The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness."
"It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or"
"As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance."
"Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?"
"You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!"
"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."
"What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?"
"Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment."
"We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here."
"I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe."
"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?"
"There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on."
"Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat."