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demon
«If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.»
«Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears»
Author: Louis MacNeice
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commission, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, demon, drumming, The Demon
«A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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demon, enchanted, haunted, Holy Places, savage, wailed, wailing, wane, waned, wanes, waning
«Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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demon, entertainment, health food, in low spirits, low-spirited, low spirits, spirited, The Demon, waits
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
«Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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blast, breaking point, crush, demon, encourage, gratify, hurl, insatiable, native, oath, swear, The Antichrist, The Demon
«One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Enemies
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Communion, demon, hearty, The Mental, uncharitable
«I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.»