Category: Quotes
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary
The novel starts in the early 1850’s in the USA. It opens with the conversation between the “kind” farmer from Kentucky, Arthur Shelby and the slave trader Mr. Haley. Mr. Shelby is in debts and has to sell some of his black slaves to cover his debts. Despite the fact that Mr. Shelby talks a…
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Quotes – Page 472 | Just Great DataBase
His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was “very glad;” but…
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Wilson? He thinks she goes to see The Great Gatsby
Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. Quote Analysis This arrogant phrase is said by Tom in the Valley of Ashes – the dull and depressing district where workers live, spend their whole lives and die. Tom talks about the husband of…
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Quotes – Page 170 | Just Great DataBase
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 17 Poo-tee-weet? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 17 These late eclipses in the sun and moon portendno good to us: though the wisdom of nature canreason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itselfscourged by the sequent effects:…
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Quotes – Page 333 | Just Great DataBase
The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water. Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of…
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Quotes – Page 443 | Just Great DataBase
APRIL 16. Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone—come. And the voices say with them: We are your…
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Well,” Aureliano said. “Tell me what it is.”Pilar Ternera bit her lips with a sad smile.”That you would be good in a war,” she said. “Where you put your eye, you put your bullet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 10 Men demand much more than you think,” she would tell her enigmatically. “There’s a lot…
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The Things They Carried Quotes
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity. The Things They Carried 981 A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. The Things They Carried…