Ann Petry quotes
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“A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.”
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“Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.”
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“If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.”
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“Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.”
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“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.”
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“Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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Source : Alan Bennett (2016). “Keeping On Keeping On”, p.296, Profile Books
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Source : Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”
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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.175, A&C Black
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