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Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 24)

London Fields Author: Martin Amis Year: 1989 “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like …”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 23)

The Scarlet Letter Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Year: 1850 “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 22)

The Picture Of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Year: 1890 “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 21)

The Children Of Men Author: P.D. James Year: 1992 “We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 20)

Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Year: 1937 “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 19)

Frankenstein Author: Mary Shelley Year: 1818 “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 15)

Stardust  Author: Neil Gaiman Year: 1999 “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 13)

The Good Soldier Author: Ford Madox Ford Year: 1915 “Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”  

Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 12)

Middlemarch Author: George Eliot Year: 1874 “We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not… Continue Reading “Powerful Literary Quotes (Day 12)”