Classic Quotes - Page 22

• John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference.

  Joel Osteen

  Book, Differences, Giving

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• Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.922, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mind, Sun, Moments

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Prayer, Sleep

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

  Eoin Colfer

  Teacher, Falling In Love, Princess

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• I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Lust

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?" What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's a classic for a reason." He leaned against the window. "It's good to see you, Kat." Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you, too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Car, Guy

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Edith Wharton

  Definitions, Beloved, Fit

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• I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

  Jeaniene Frost

  Bed, Needs, Partners

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• A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise

  Jeaniene Frost

  Night, Vampire, Lasts

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• It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

  Lorrie Moore

  Giving Up, Lovers, Speed

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• One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sight, Dna, Years

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.198, St. Martin's Press

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• Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Wall, Branches, Gothic

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• All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dresses, Want

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• A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fashion, Book, Successful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.586, e-artnow

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• No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Heart, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.74, Atlântico Press

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• There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

  Kate Chopin

  Regret, Kissing, Dull

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.219

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• Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Expectations, Drug

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Girl, Class, Two

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• He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Way, Victim, Arrangements

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• I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

  Jeff Kinney

  Book, Animal, Thinking

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• The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Logic, Clarity

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• Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

  Gail Carriger

  Character, Moments, Dear

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