| Quote | Book Title | Author |
| '...wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad.' | |
| 'I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.' | |
| 'So it goes.' | |
| 'The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time' | |
| '...and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone [...] broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud.' | |
| 'But there was no question about it! We were stretched on the back of some sort of underwater boat, built, as far as I could make out, in the form of a huge steel fish.' | |
| 'I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man . . . if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.' | |
| 'No man that's born of woman/Shall e'er have power upon thee.'* | |
| 'When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.' | |
| 'I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I live in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.' | |
| “Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.' | |
| | Quote | Book Title | Author |
| 'There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is--other people!'* | |
| 'I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over.' | |
| 'Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.' | |
| 'Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof were his, yet he retained his wildness and wiliness. And from the depths of the forest, a call still sounded.' | |
| ''I don't want any more dogs,' I said. 'I won't ever want another dog. They wouldn't be like Old Dan and Little Ann.'' | |
| 'I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.' | |
| 'Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.' | |
| 'Remember the firemen are rarely necessary. The public stopped reading of its own accord.' | |
| 'Oh yes, I pierced my eyes, my useless eyes, why not? When all that's sweet had parted from my vision.'* | |
| 'Please, sir, I want some more.' | |
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