“The world is yours if you can get it — and hold it.”
— Armitage Trail, Scarface - https://t.co/6bhCK5PYTx
Power without discipline destroys itself.
Trail’s novel became a portrait of unchecked hunger, ego, and the cost of wanting more than the world can safely give.
“I have lived two lives — the old life of my ancestors and the new life of my own time.” — Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind (1930)
East Wind: West Wind is Pearl S. Buck’s first novel, centered on Kwei-lan, a traditional Chinese woman...
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“Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises This is the final line of The Sun Also Rises, spoken by Jake Barnes to Lady Brett Ashley after they reflect on the life and relationship they might have had together
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“My mother is a fish.”
— William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)
This is one of the most famous and unsettling lines in American literature.
Unable to process grief in an adult way, Vardaman tries to make sense of death.. https://t.co/7ZT5vfx00i #WilliamFaulkner#Modern#Classic
“What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment?” https://t.co/xFlXRjaLRv
— Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887). This title testifies the outrage and her courage in exposing cruelty. #Classic#Women#Journalism#TrueStory#MustRead