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daughter of an American industrialist, who is riding in the train.
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
She faced it now. She thought: If emotion is one's response to the things the world has to offer, if she loved the rails, the building, and more: if she loved her love for them—there was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all
... See moreAyn Rand • Atlas Shrugged
modern Manhattan woman,
V. E. Schwab • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know. Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength,
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch (AmazonClassics Edition)
She was smarter than him and they both knew it. It wasn’t just school—Lane Dean was in accounting and business and did all right, he was hanging in there. She was a year older, she was twenty, but it was also more—she had always seemed to Lane to be on good terms with her life in a way age could not account for. His mother had put it that she knew
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
Perhaps the most significant of the remaining tasks had been given not to William Krome or Clarence Coe, but to Joseph Parrott, manager of all Flagler’s Florida interests and president of the FEC. Owing to the earlier difficulties with the Navy, there was still no terminal facility built to receive trains or handle the significant shipping traffic
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