“Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.”

— V.S. Naipaul , book Half a Life

Half a Life (2001)

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Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry 1932–2018

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

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“Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.”

Alan Hirsch (1959) South African missionary

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“He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.”

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“Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.”

George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 7

“The blood of Abraham,1 God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

“I was moved with contrition as with a strong agony, for I had been one of those who had endured that these things should be. Therefore now I found upon my garments the blood of this great multitude of strangled souls of my brothers. The voice of their blood cried out against me from the ground. Every stone of the reeking pavements, every brick of the pestilential rookeries, found a tongue and called after me as I fled: What hast thou done with thy brother Abel?”

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist

Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 28.

“It was dry and cold, not bitter, but with the kind of steady chill that makes it hard to remember being any other way. I tried to imagine people living out here once, and couldn't. It must have been long ago. The land felt like it didn't want anyone bothering it anymore.”

Michael Marshall Smith (1965) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer

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“He's getting wrapped up before the game and iced down after it. And you see that and you might have an injury, but you are like, 'Well, if Ovie can go out there and skate as hard as he does, I can go out there.”

Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player

That rubs off on guys a lot, too.
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“When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

On Megyn Kelly http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/donald-trump-cnn-megyn-kelly-comment/ (7 August 2015)
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“Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.”

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