I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.

Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.

I had advised friends to write me to `` No Man's Land, Pont Kehl, Between Strasbourg and Kehl, France-Germany ''.

& synce I did write unto him to dessier him to paie 10 for mee which standeth mee greatly uppon to have paide.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).

I feel compelled to write this because I am greatly concerned with the problem of community growth rate and the relation between types of growth in a town such as East Greenwich.

Krist, I wish they could write!!

`` This is the sort of stuff I write and then throw away ''!!

`` And in the future, since I write for a public of one, I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money ''.

I can see it from this window where I write.

`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.

`` I made you so you could stand up.

I made you a man ''.

The charge, I tell you ''!!

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

`` I won't even try to thank you ''.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I realized that Hamlet was faced with an entirely different problem, but his agony could have been no greater.

I forgot those warnings, and here I lie, dying in agony.

My nerves are all shot and for the last year I have been in agony day and night — except when I sleep with sleeping pills — and any peace I have by day is when I am drugged by pills.

So please forgive me, all those I love and may God forgive me too, but I cannot bear the agony and it best for everyone this way.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.

Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, " I have never — and probably will never — experience such panic and terror and agony over anything.

Houchard wrote on taking command “ My life is poisoned ... everywhere calumny has preceded me, everywhere I have suffered the last agony, since I have found nothing but distrust in all the persons who do not know me ”

I was so hurt to see my friend die with such agony ", Warwick remembers.

" I have known writers of every degree, but never one to whom the act of composition was such a travail and an agony as it was to Pater ," wrote Edmund Gosse, who also described Pater's method of composition: " So conscious was he of the modifications and additions which would supervene that he always wrote on ruled paper, leaving each alternate line blank.

Ill health and physical and mental agony, I have been spared nothing.

Then I thought heaven and earth were at an end ; eight times did they draw me up and let me fall again, so that I suffered terrible agony ....

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.

With the agony of pulling it out piece by piece and having the prosecutor stick the knife in her gut, I couldn't help but let everything spew out of her.

Entitled " Ich hab ' ein glühend Messer " (" I Have a Gleaming Knife "), the Wayfarer likens his agony of lost love to having an actual metal blade piercing his heart.

" Being a culprit I do have a sense of agony with which I must fight ," she said at a press conference in 1990.