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«I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat»
«One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.»
Author: Ida B. Wells
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against, dog, Do or Die, fighting, had better, injustice, injustices, rat, trap, trapping
«It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.»
«I wouldn't mind the rat race -- if the rats would lose once in a while.»
«Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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breaking, championed, Champions, confines, die hard, dimension, erase, extra, heroes, In America, legends, mould, myths, narrow, not yet, possibility, provide, rat, rat race, The Legend, Weird
«It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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lousy, moan, moaning, moans, rat, restful, shout, yell
«Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!»
«I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary»
«Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate»
«People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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artists, endurance, fortitude, frustration, frustrations, gutter, gutters, hole, rat, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, toughen, Vegetables
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