Category: Quotes

I knew this one Catholic boy, Louis Shaney, when I was at the Whooton School. Then, after a while, right in the middle of the goddam conversation, he asked me, “Did you happen to notice where the Catholic church is in town, by any chance?” The thing was, you could tell by the way he…

I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. Jane Austen Pride and…

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 5 I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. Toni Morrison Beloved 5 Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia.(Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku…

It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3 The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far,…

Virginia was not quite fourteen when Harry Edgar possessed her. He gave her lessons in algebra. Je m’imagine cela. They spent their honeymoon at Petersburg, Fla. Monsieur Poe-poe, as that boy in one of Monsieur Humbert Humbert’s classes in Paris called the poet-poet. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 1 disconcerted Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 If…

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Chapter number : 9 Page number : 180 The Great Gatsby 10242 Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. Page number : 2 The Great Gatsby 41 Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s…

What the Chronics are—or most of us—are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot. Ken Kesey One Flew Over…