“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.”

— Saul Bellow, book The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Ch. 1

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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) Puerto Rican politician

Source: El Mar y Tu: Otros Poemas

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 641

“I have a temper. My mum's got a temper. My brother's got a temper. You've got to have one. You know what happens if you don't have one? One day you're walking down the street and you just pop. You're lying there dead on the pavement because you've been holding and suppressing all this bullshit, you know.”

Russell Crowe (1964) New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musician

60 Minutes interview (2006)

“Sometimes you seem to slip
and
don't know know what to do.
What a life…
what a life.
I keep holding on.
The heavier the load
the harder I fight.
No one
will
keep me down.
I keep holding on.
I keep holding on.
Until God decides.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“The only thing holding down my soul is my soles”

Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur

Book VII
Rebel of the Underground (2013)

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“Sometimes I see you
And you don't know why I'm there
And I'm washed away by emotions
I hold deep down inside
Getting stronger with time
It's living through the fire
And holding on we find That's what love is for …”

Amy Grant (1960) American musician

"That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
Song lyrics, Heart in Motion (1991)

“You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”

Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 69)

“As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear”

Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician

Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
Context: As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name into the sky
And I will wake up happy

“As to honour — you know — it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”

Joseph Conrad book Chance

Chance (1913), Part I, Ch. 2

“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.”

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