#imprisoned

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #conscious #first #go #guess

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fat #fat man #imprisoned #man #out

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#above #affiliations #everybody #imprisoned #own

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#home #house #imprisoned #memories #paintings

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#dictator #force #forever #hold #imprisoned

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#earning #excluded #imprisoned #means #men

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#afghanistan #al-qaeda #arrested #charged #crossing

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese