As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movements stopped for much, much more than a moment. And then the moment was gone...
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language...
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
And though she be but little, she is fierce...
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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