Category: Quotes

  • The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 7 | Just Great DataBase

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    Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs. The…

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    The fascination of the abomination. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 4 Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast.  ’Cos I had some sense. William Golding Lord of the Flies 4 Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure…

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    I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 471 One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling…

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    An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion. James Joyce Ulysses 4 I found myself on Gatsby’s side and alone. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway 4 Lips kissed, kissing kissed. James Joyce Ulysses…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 55 | Just Great DataBase

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    What a piece of work is a man! How noble is reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 11 | Just Great DataBase

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    You’re getting well,’ Samuel said. ‘Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around. John Steinbeck East of Eden 19 All of them had a restlessness in common. John Steinbeck East of Eden…

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    Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 15 …the pleasantness of an…

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    They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2 попробуй выучиться одному нехитрому фокусу, Глазастик, – сказал он. – Тогда тебе куда легче будет ладить с самыми…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 79 | Just Great DataBase

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    The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 and agreeable Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby’s constancy, could not witness the…

  • Cry, the Beloved Country Quotes

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    The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. Cry, the Beloved Country 267 But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. Cry, the Beloved Country 205…