Category: Quotes

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    Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer shooting hat.””Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I shoot…

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    If a story seems moral, do not believe it. Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried 0 The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 The knock would come at the door; I’d open, with…

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    Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret?Mr. Raymond: Because you’re children and you can understand it. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 11 Catch several hares and you won’t catch one. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 11 The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren’t they? Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 44 | Just Great DataBase

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    And the books that came into the house, some of them secretly—well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts,…

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    It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 7 I missed her. I missed her. I missed her. I miss her. John Green Paper Towns 7 What happened after that had a dreamlike quality: in a dream I saw the…

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    Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. William Shakespeare King Lear 160 Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.…

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    Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 27 Everything nourishes what is strong already Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 27 Friend of fatherless!Fountain of happiness!Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is onFire…

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    Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 252 All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 44 | Just Great DataBase

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    Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality… and as she threw…

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    The law was designed to save, not to destroy. John Steinbeck East of Eden 1 They’ll change the face of the countryside. They get their clatter into everything, the postmaster went on. We even feel it here. Man used to come for his mail once a week. Now he comes every day, sometimes twice a…