Category: Quotes
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King Lear Act 4 Analysis
Main events of the act 4: Goneril arrives at her castle, but her husband doesn’t come to greet her; Albany is unhappy about what happened to Lear and Goneril wants to have a love affair with Edmund; Duke of Cornwall dies and his widow Regan starts to plan a marriage with Edmund; Gloucester wants Edgar…
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Jude the Obscure Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Perhaps you are making a cat’s paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so–to see you sitting up there so prim. Jude the Obscure 3 She saw that he had singled her out from the three, as a woman is singled out in such cases, for no reasoned…
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The Book Thief Summary
The narrator of the story is Death. His duty is to guide the souls to the afterlife, not to worry about living ones, but he breaks this law, compassionately following the little girl, Liesel Meminger, who he calls a “book thief”. Death says that he saw her three times: in the train, when the plane…
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Quotes – Page 296 | Just Great DataBase
It’s as if all the knowledge I’ve soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 3 Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what…
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Quotes – Page 13 | Just Great DataBase
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so…
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The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase
I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings. The Great Gatsby 22 I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. The…