Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

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Topic

Single women Single life

Speaker

Edna Ferber

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ferber, Edna. Comment at a round table. Algonquin Round Table. c. 1929, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

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Topic
Suffering The human condition

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
A Farewell to Arms
Medium
Novel
Genre
War novel
Language
English
Time
1929 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 4, ch. 34.

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Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood

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Topic
Heaven

Author

William Wordsworth
Source
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1807 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 9.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 9.