Violent quotes
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"I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail."
"They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death."
"My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from."
"My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done."
"There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer."
"Necessity is a violent school-mistress."
"[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out."
