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Crush Quotes - Page 10

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2046, Delphi Classics

Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Tommy Wallach (2015). “We All Looked Up”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

"The Collected Works of Paul Valéry: History and politics", translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews, 1971.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.221

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi