Category: Quotes

  • Slaughterhouse-Five Quotes

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    Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Slaughterhouse-Five 4856 And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Slaughterhouse-Five 2854 How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. Slaughterhouse-Five 2533 And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not…

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    Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. […] Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 31 | Just Great DataBase

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    If your mind dislike anything obey it William Shakespeare Hamlet 21 I have drunk and seen the spider. William Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale 21 I pray thee, cease thy counsel,Which falls into mine ears as profitlessAs water in a sieve: give not me counsel;Nor let no comforter delight mine earBut such a one whose wrongs…

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    Men demand much more than you think,” she would tell her enigmatically. “There’s a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think. Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 9 I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 90 | Just Great DataBase

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    Cuando las personas se empeñan en una forma de conducta que saben equivocada, se sienten agraviadas cuando se espera algo mejor de ellas. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 0 Elizabeth,…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 10 | Just Great DataBase

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    Last week they shot a woman, right about here. She was a Martha. She was fumbling in her robe, for her pass, and they thought she was hunting for a bomb. They thought she was a man in disguise. There have been such incidents. Rita and Cora knew the woman. I heard them talking about…

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    Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if…

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    Maybe the two different worlds we lives in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset. S.E. Hinton The Outsiders Sherri “Cherry” Valance 174 The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. George Orwell 1984 174 Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in…

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    What relish is in this? How runs the stream?Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 4 The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and…

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    How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence. Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 205 Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No…