"If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves."
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"Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there."
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"Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision."
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"If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve"
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"Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine."
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"I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied."
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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
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"Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers."
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"Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity."
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"Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned."
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"Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words."
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"You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'"
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"Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need."
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"I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves."
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"A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous"."
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"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
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"but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering."
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"Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every little living nerve That from bitter words did swerve Round the tortur'd lips and brow, Are like sapless leaflets now Frozen upon December's bough."
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"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
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"No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day."
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