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«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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adults, childish, clarity, devils, get rid of, goblin, goblins, Gods Themselves, identity, No Angel, obsolete, openly, Or logic, psychology, punctuation, quench, quenches, rebellion, redeem, The Family, The Gods Themselves, The Witches, thirst, witches, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
«. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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crossed, despite, ghosts, goblin, goblins, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, passed, perplexities, perplexity, pleasant, put together, The Witches, witches, witching
«WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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attractive, in league, league, League of, old woman, repulsive, the Devil, The Witches, ugly, wicked, wickedness, witch, witching, young woman
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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calls, degraded, dignity, goddess, in operation, operation, opposite, scorned, scorning, The Witches, turning, Virgin, whore, witch, witching
«There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.»
«They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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advance, announcing, approach, daylight, daylights, dread, fatal, harbinger, preachers, scowl, scowled, scowling, subversion, subversions, They Live, The Living Daylights, The Witches, witches, witching
«'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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breathes, breathing time, churchyards, contagion, night time, The Witches, Tis, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns