“ I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
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“ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ These feet which kick furiously, legs which bend in to protect a tender stomach. This flesh which is but a mass of spasms, starts and shakes. ”
- Frederick Leboyer- Copy
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“ I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe —. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy? ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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