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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Anxiety Drowning Feel Greatest He Him His Holds Killer Know Love Makes Man Might Others Panic Save Strangle Want Will You

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In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access because of sexual orientation, the utopia that Pope Francis desires may be impossible for the church to attain.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Abuse Access Attain Beaches Because Church Denied Desires Drowning Escape Families Francis Impossible Leaving May Orientation Pope Sexual Utopia War Where World

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It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

~Arthur Baer

Topics: Both Drowning Ends Helpful Man Rope Throwing

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I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.

~August Wilson

Topics: Again Been Best Blues Drowning Else End His Like Nothing Ocean Once Over Own Plays Private Rewriting Same Same Story Say Says Short Short Story Singer Story Streets Walked Were World Wrote

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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

~Billy Bob Thornton

Topics: Drowning Lifted Man Me Out Right Sadness She Up

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When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Background Drowning Had Idea Interested Making Me My Own Out Own Putting Records Rest Singer Started

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Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?

~Caroline Paul

Topics: Afternoon Baby Birth Could Desk Drowning Fire Firefighters Go Interesting Might More Morning Most Night Office People Run Save Sit Than

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We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.

~Cathy Engelbert

Topics: Data Drowning Going Me Moments Morning Need Phone Recovery Right Up Wake Wake Up

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I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Begun Bit Drowning Dumped Email Laptop Much Really Said Screw Started Though Use

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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

~Criss Angel

Topics: Art Because Cell Century Chinese Demonstrations Drowning Early Escape Fears Harry He Helplessness His Icon Inspirations Our Over Primal Remains Torture Triumph Water 20Th Century

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