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"Pat licked her bottom lip, tasted salt and wondered who exactly the tears were for."

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 204)

"As they neared the bank Narcissa Benbow came along from the opposite direction, and they met at the door, where he made her a ponderous compliment on her appearance while she stood in her pale dress and shouted her grave voice into his deafness."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 101)

“Come back again soon,” Miss Jenny called.
“Yes. Soon,” Narcissa answered. “Goodbye.”

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 74)

'Simon said: “You aint never yit planted nothin’ whar hit ought ter be planted.” He sat on the bottom step, whetting the blade of his hoe with a file. Miss Jenny stood with her caller at the edge of the veranda above him, in a man’s felt hat and heavy gloves. A pair of shears dangled below her waist, glinting in the morning sunlight.'

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 47)

“Sinner riz fum de moaner’s bench,
Sinner jump to de penance bench;
When de preacher ax ’im whut de reason why,
Says ‘Preacher got de women jes’ de same ez I’.
Oh, Lawd, Oh Lawd!
Oat’s whut de matter wid de church today.”

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 23)

"IT LOOKED TO Ty Ty as if there would be trouble before evening."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 138)

"WHEN THEY REACHED Augusta in the early evening, Buck stopped the car at the curb on Broad Street near Sixth. Nothing had been said about stopping downtown, and Ty Ty leaned forward to ask Buck and Shaw why they had stopped. Jim Leslie’s house was on The Hill, several miles away."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 108)

"THEY HAD BEEN at work since sunrise in the new crater, and at eleven o’clock the heat was blistering. Buck and Shaw had little to say to Will. They had never been able to get along together, and even the prospect of turning up a shovelful of yellow nuggets any moment did not serve to bind them any closer."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 97)

"...Do you know why they’re called brokers?” “Why?” “Because they keep the farmers broke all the time. They lend a little money, and then they take the whole damn crop. Or else they suck the blood out of a man by running the price up and down forcing him to sell."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 74)

"He did not remember anything else until the sun woke him by shining in his face. It was nearly nine o’clock then, and there was not a sound in the house."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 54)

'BUCK WALKED BACK and forth between the porch and the car impatiently. “Let’s get started, Pa,” he said. “We’ll be tramping around in the swamp all night if we don’t get an early start. I don’t like the swamps much after dark, anyway.”'

Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 34)

"WHEN TY TY and Pluto reached the house, they found the boys resting after their work. All the tires were tight and hard, and the radiator was filled to overflowing. Everything seemed to be ready for the trip."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 22)

'“Shall we walk? It’s not far.” He nodded. They left the bright square and walked northward, not speaking. The bridge was not yet strong.'

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 157)

"Carla was angry with Robert Holton, angrier still with George Robert Lewis."

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 126)

“Here we are,” said Caroline.

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 76)

"Richard Kuppelton was worried about this. He was also worried because he found himself hating Robert Holton and his mother would never have approved of that."

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 51)

"The elevator door opened and Caroline Lawson and Robert Holton stepped out of it and into the New York office of Heywood and Golden, members of the New York Stock Exchange and other organizations equally sound."

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 26)

"People were coming in and out of the restaurant. It got a lot of the less wealthy Wall Street trade."

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 14)

“I guess there’s nothing for me to put my money in, I guess,” said Joe.

“I shouldn’t advise buying now,” said Robert Holton. It was a daily joke of theirs. Joe would pretend he had money to invest and wanted advice.

-Vidal, Gore. In a Yellow Wood (pg. 7)

"Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story."

-Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time (pg. 118)

"If it happened right down close in front of you, you could see Villalta snarl at the bull and curse him, and when the bull charged he swung back firmly like an oak when the wind hits it, his legs tight together, the muleta trailing and the sword following the curve behind."

-Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time (pg. 83)

"It was a frightfully hot day. We'd jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge. It was simply priceless."

-Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time (pg. 23)

An aspect of the question alluded to elsewhere of “Dilettantism and Discipline”, from the point of view of the organizing center of a grouping is that of the “continuity” which tends to create a “tradition” — understood of course in an active and not a passive sense: as continuity in continuous development, but “organic development”.

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks (pg. 217)

"Another point which needs to be defined and developed is the “dual perspective” in political action and in national life. The dual perspective can present itself on various levels, from the most elementary to the most complex; but these can all theoretically be reduced to two fundamental levels, corresponding to the dual nature of Machiavelli's Centaur — half-animal and half-human."

-Gramsci, Antonio (pg. 187)

"The place of the hero’s birth, or the remote land of exile from which he returns to perform his adult deeds among men, is the mid-point or navel of the world. Just as ripples go out from an underwater spring, so the forms of the universe expand in circles from the source."

-Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (pg. 354)

"Marduk in this heroic manner pushed back with a ceiling the waters above, and with a floor the waters beneath. Then in the world between he created man."

-Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (pg. 303)

"The first effect of the cosmogonic emanations is the framing of the world stage of space; the second is the production of life within the frame: life polarized for self-reproduction under the dual form of the male and female."

-Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (pg. 288)

"The remainder of the long story of Kamar al-Zaman is a history of the slow yet wonderful operation of a destiny that has been summoned into life. Not everyone has a destiny: only the hero who has plunged to touch it, and has come up again — with a ring."

-Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (pg. 247)

"After handing her over to Mavis, the girl said, "I'll come back to check on you, okay? Name's Billie Cato."

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 176)

"California Christmases are always a treat and this one promised to be a marvel."

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 164)