Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 227 | Just Great DataBase

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    Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 33 | Just Great DataBase

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    Sure, cried the tenant men, but it’s our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours. That’s what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it. John Steinbeck The Grapes…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 23 | Just Great DataBase

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    Ay! Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee. Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet it will hardly bring her. Send other women up and down to seek her, lingering somewhere; and yet, although the messengers have done dread deeds, it is questionable whether of their…

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    Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood. William Golding Lord of the Flies Jack Merridew 75 He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which…

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    In Cal the process had been so long and so slow that he felt no strangeness. He had built a wall of self-sufficiency around himself, strong enough to defend him against the world. If his wall had any weak places they may have been on the sides nearest Aron and Lee, and particularly nearest Adam.…

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    Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or…

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    No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle 26 However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear…

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    Feed a man, cloth him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair. John Steinbeck East of Eden 1 An’ I got to thinkin’, on’y it wasn’t thinkin’, it was deeper down than thinkin’. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 1 Morning seems to come earlier every year I live. John…

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    However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 If I…

  • As I Lay Dying Quotes

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    I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. As I Lay Dying 546 He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when…