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Fierce Quotes

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Muriel Rukeyser, Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, Jan Heller Levi (2005). “The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

Karen Russell (2012). “Swamplandia!”, p.130, Random House

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

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I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.320, Macmillan