Category: Quotes

  • The Great Gatsby Summary

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    It could be a love story, but this story is exclusively about money. Historical and Cultural Background of the Events of the Novel It was America of the twenties. In 1918 the First World War ended, and yesterday’s young fighters are looking for their place in the tumultuous life of megacities. From the pre-war era,…

  • The Catcher in the Rye Quotes

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    What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. Page number : 11 The Catcher in the…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 14 | Just Great DataBase

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    Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 8 Do you…

  • Lord, what fools these mortals be! A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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    Lord, what fools these mortals be! Quote Analysis Said to Oberon by Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in Act 3 Scene 2, this phrase is quite ironic, because the fairies aren’t portrayed as less foolish. Of course, from Puck’s point of view, observing human with their romantic struggles looks like a fun game,…

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    It was that boy. I said Here; you better take a holt of my hand and he waited and held to me. I be durn if it wasn’t like he come back and got me; like he was saying They wont nothing hurt you. Like he was saying about a fine place he knowed where…

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    judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 0 Do I just keep…

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    If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”–Mr. Darcy Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0…

  • It was a bright cold day in 1984

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    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Quote Analysis This is the opening line of the novel “1984” written by George Orwell and it sets the overall tone of the story. April is spring, the month when most of the flowers shall bloom and the nature awakes from…

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    I still have it in me to feel sorry for him. Moira is right, I am a wimp. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1 All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. Someone…

  • Quotes – Page 377 | Just Great DataBase

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    She wished to appear only in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain! And her mysterious adornment had lasted days and days. And then one morning, precisely at sunrise, she showed herself. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince 1 I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner…