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Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes...

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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifyin...

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Mine is the blood of the dragon.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

There is power in a King's blood.

All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.

Blood calls to blood.

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George R. R. MartinA Feast for Crows

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people.

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I ...

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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...

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I closed my eyes obediently; I felt a light kiss on my lips, on which there was always a little accu...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

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Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against ...

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for ...

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You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it’s not my own fa...

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I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse ...

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The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the b...

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, althou...

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Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about ...

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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...

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There was no arguing with blood.

Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first...

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No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less u...

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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood ce...

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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. Th...

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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...

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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of ...

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I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My brea...

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The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't gi...

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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assist...

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I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swi...

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She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-sm...

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Margaret AtwoodMoral Disorder and Other Stories

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Ca...

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He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken ch...

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lo...

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Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries,Old veinsThat hol...

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You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and ...

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Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spi...

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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where i...

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N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms

It is a sea of blood. We come from the sea, Tim; our blood is salt, and strange tides ebb and flow w...

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Neil GaimanThe Books of Magic

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the ban...

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The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and...

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She took another step. The simple motion of her moving leg was like a dance, the unexaggerated shift...

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Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood c...

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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deat...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...

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All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."He u...

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The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cl...

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Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.You sir, too si...

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Stephen SondheimSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.

My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was ...

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal ...

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe...

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The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blo...

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The wast...

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Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

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William HarveyOn the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...

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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a sh...

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The blades touched my abdomen. A cold shock ran through me, and my head began to spin. If he had pre...

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Yōko OgawaHotel Iris

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Birds and periodic blood.Old recapitulations.The fox, panting, fire-eyed,gone to earth in my chest.H...

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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to...

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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher e...

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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equab...

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Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook ...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die ...

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Anne RiceThe Queen of the Damned

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various character...

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Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his se...

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N O T H I N GI would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing m...

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just abo...

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadersh...

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An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering fro...

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And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin;...

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They didn’t speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to ...

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What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was...

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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?