Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 157 | Just Great DataBase

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    إن الكتب التي تثير اهتمامي بالفعل هي تلك التي عندما أنتهي من قراءتها أرغب في أن يكون المؤلف صديقا عزيزا لي وأستطيع أن أخابره بالتليفون في أي وقت شئت J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 22 When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 84 | Just Great DataBase

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    Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother’s account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility…

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    If you don’t like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1 It is just passing the buck, as…

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    But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one’s happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance. In the present instance, this last-arrived Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 Mr. Bennet replied that…

  • The Glass Castle Summary

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    A memoir from the mid-2000s, The Glass Castle is about Jeannette Walls whose job is writing for a gossip column in a successful magazine. She is living in the upper echelons of New York society; the book begins with her leaving her Park Avenue address in a taxi. On her way to yet another glamorous…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 55 | Just Great DataBase

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    You didn’t take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.  Charles Dickens Hard Times 0 circumstances, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this…

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    When it was time to play Boo’s big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewingmachine drawer when Calpurnia’s back was turned, then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers. Dill would walk by, cough at Jem, and Jem would fake a plunge into Dill’s thigh. From where I…

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    She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 97 Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 96 Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as…

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    I held hands with her all the time…that doesn’t sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid…

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    Bizler akıntıya karşı gemilerimizi ilerletmeye çalışırken, hiç durmadan geçmişe çekiliyorduk aslında. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1 Os meus sentimentos não se manifestam por dá cá aquela palha. O meu temperamento poderia talvez ser classificado de vingativo. A minha opinião, uma vez perdida, fica perdida para sempre. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 The…