Category: Quotes

  • Brave New World Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know. Brave New World 1 Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all…

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    She celebrated frustration by clapping her hands. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 2 It doesn’t make sense to me. Looks like if Mr. Arthur was hankerin’ after heaven he’d come out on the porch at least. Atticus says God’s loving folks like you love yourself— Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. You are too…

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    I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 12 Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went.No, why?You moved.Just don’t move. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 12 How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 14 | Just Great DataBase

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    Piensa solo en el pasado cuando su recuerdo sea placentero. Pride and Prejudice 0 Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me—it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible…

  • War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance 1984

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    War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Quote Analysis These three sentences are another quote from “1984” by George Orwell. They are engraved on the building where Ministry of Truth is situated. They seem absurdly controversial to the reader, especially if we think about the fact it is the official slogan of the…

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    But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.   I Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 I’ve heard the long sigh go up, from around me, the sigh like air coming out of an air mattress, I’ve seen Aunt Lydia place her hand over the mike, to stifle the other sounds coming…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 110 | Just Great DataBase

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    I that do bring the news made not the match. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra 0 […] y sea cual fuere el suceso de esta noche, fiadlo al pensamiento, pero no a la lengua; y yo sabré remunerar vuestro celo. William Shakespeare Hamlet 0 This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 102 | Just Great DataBase

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    I am, dear Madame,Your most obedient humble servent,JOHN WILLOUGHBY. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 Portanto – disse a Srta. Tilney -, a senhorita crê que os historiadores não são felizes ao deixar sua imaginação voar. Eles demonstram possuí-la, mas não conseguem despertar o interesse. Eu gosto de História, e não me importo de aceitar…

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    I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice…

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    In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. I Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1 For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1…