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"You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you."
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"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation."

"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."

"It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!"

"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person."

"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

"Kill the body and the head will die."

"Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow."

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
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"People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

"I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing."

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

"He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea."
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