Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 75 | Just Great DataBase

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    Marianne’s abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor’s. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1 Elinor now…

  • Fahrenheit 451 Essays

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    Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury, is a story about a society where the government controls the thoughts, and actions of the citizens. Bradbury’s futuristic society has no past and is completely empty. The works and knowledge created in the centuries before, banished and burned. His world contains… 1 658 words Ray…

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    But I’m glad you’ll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn’t want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don’t want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven’t I? Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina 442 Now this…

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    you what. Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ’em because he ain’t a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain’t you? Always scrappy? John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 4 Everybody turned into a…

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    I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein 0 Teutonic migration F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 0 The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn.…

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    Sweet, she thought. He must think I can’t bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, “goodbye” would break me to pieces. Ain’t that sweet.”So long,” she murmured from the far side of the trees. Toni Morrison Beloved 13 But her…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 64 | Just Great DataBase

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    it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 1 His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently,…

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    Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. John Milton Paradise Lost 7 Nobody’s heart is perfect. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 7 Then…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase

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    I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed The Handmaid’s Tale 9 The willow is full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers.Rendevous, it says. Terraces;the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever. The summer dress rustles against the flesh of my…

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    Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 5 One thing? One thing I like? Okay. J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 5 Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may…