Crucible Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings

Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more. — Elisabeth Roudinesco

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness. — Pierre Salinger

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance. — Brandon Lee

Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond. They — Laurie Frankel

I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical. — Robert O. Paxton