Category: Quotes

  • Lord of the Flies Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Lord of the Flies Mob mentality is a large theme in Lord of the Flies. Mob mentality is, essentially, when a group of people do things they would never dream of doing by themselves, such as acts of violence. It is shown throughout the book, and a main instance is when the boys kill Simon…

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    My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter. I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I’ll…

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    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar 8170 The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 7763 The secret of life,…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 22 | Just Great DataBase

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    They was this rich fella, an he makes like he’s poor, an they’s this rich girl, an she purtends like she’s poor too, an’ they meet in a hamburg’ stan’Why?I don’t know why-that’s how it was.Why’d they purtend like they’s poor?Well, they’re tired of bein’ rich.Horseshit!You want to hear this, or not?Well, go on then.…

  • The Tempest Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    We are such stuff 173 As dreams are made on The Tempest 0 The rarer action is 35 In virtue than in vengeance. They The Tempest 0 Yet with my nobler reason ‘gaitist my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of…

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    Creo que en todo individuo hay cierta tendencia a un determinado mal, a un defecto innato, que ni siquiera la mejor educación puede vencer. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 I T IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, THAT A SINGLE MAN IN POSSESSION of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However…

  • William Faulkner Quotes – Page 12 | Just Great DataBase

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    He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm. William Faulkner Light in August 1 Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep…

  • Jude the Obscure Quotes

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    People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort. Jude the Obscure 347 But no one came. Because no one ever does. Jude the Obscure 278 You have never loved me as I love…

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    I remembered the old doctor, – “It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.” I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 7 He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 29 | Just Great DataBase

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    We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 24 Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 24 I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground…