Book Quotes

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 364

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We are possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, 144

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Long, long into the night I lay--thinking of you.

Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 320

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You can't always keep trouble away. That doesn't mean you have to offer it a chair to sit on.

Judith Guest, Errands, 212

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This is just what human beings do--turn objects into people, people into objects.

Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted, 171

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That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted, 52

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, 31

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You never take art for what it is--beauty, ultimate meaning, form for its own sake, self-subsisting, oh no. It's always got to be either sneered at or attacked as evil.

Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament, or: Enderby’s End, 26

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He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

E.M. Forster, Maurice, 41

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Misery was somehow mixed up with all this happiness.

E.M. Forster, Maurice, 23

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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabkov, Pale Fire, 225

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I want you to know that no matter how much you hurt me, you cannot hurt my love.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 205

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Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 41

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He was his own cancellation.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 26

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"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 177

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Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, 1

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It's always the next generation. I never could understand why they were always the generation that mattered--the next generation. They're always supposed to be better or smarter or more important. And we're supposed to sacrifice for them.

Edna Ferber, Giant, 373