Quotes with clutch

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• In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley
  English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker
  American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstance
• bludgeoning
• quicksilver
• unexpected
• darkness
• sudden

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