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Clutch Quotes

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

Czeslaw Milosz
Men, Illusion, Clutch

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.

Siegfried Kracauer
Reality, World, Clutch
Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.59, Harvard University Press

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Margaret Mitchell
Chains That Bind, Chains, Clutch
Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

Julia Quinn
Hands, Evil, Clutch

Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

Robert Jordan
Clutch
Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.84, Macmillan

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Margaret Atwood
Heart, Familiar, Clutch
Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Juliet Marillier
Hands, Emptiness, Clutch
Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

Franny Billingsley
Strange, Clutch, Persons
Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

Dolly Parton
Tides, Clutch, Ifs
"Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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