Familiar Quotes - Page 5
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144
Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.70, Hachette UK
John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.9, Penguin
Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.231, Penguin
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor
Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.140, Vintage
The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.
Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.248, Penguin
John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.196, Random House
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.254, Ballantine Books
Homer (1791). “The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.109
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.334, University of Chicago Press