My Ántonia QUOTES Flashcards

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“I could…”

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“I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me as our shadows used to”

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2
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“I did…”

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“I did not want to find her aged and broken”

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3
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“Some memories…”

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“Some memories are realities and better than anything that can ever happen to one again”

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“Whatever we …”

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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

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5
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“Antonia had not…”

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“Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”

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“I’d have liked…”

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“I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister–anything a woman can be to a man.”

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“If there were …”

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“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”

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“I prefer to…”

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“I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”

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“More than any other…”

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“More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”

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10
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“Optima…”

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“Optima dies … prima fugit. The best days are the first to flee.”

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“He sighed and …”

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“he sighed and told us that if he had stayed at home in Russia perhaps by this time he would have had a pretty daughter of his own to cook and keep house for him.”

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“A girl…”

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“A girl like me has got to take her good times when she can.”

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13
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“People who…”

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“People who don’t like this country ought to stay at home”

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14
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“There never were…”

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“There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had.”

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“But Mr Shimerda…”

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“But Mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer.”

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16
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“Ambrosch put …”

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“Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do”

17
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“She liked me better…”

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“She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake – I was now a big fellow.”

18
Q

“He wanted us to know …”

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“He wanted us to know that they were not beggars in the old country; he made good wages, and his family were respected there. “

19
Q

“but I was…”

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“But I was a boy and she was a girl and I resented her protecting manner”

20
Q

“I used to think…”

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“I used to think with pride that Antonia, like Snow White in the fairy tale, was still the ‘fairest of them all’”

21
Q

“things will…”

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“Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us”

22
Q

“I could not keep…”

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“I could not keep my eyes off the man in the bed. His shirt was hanging open and his emaciated chest covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly”

23
Q

“Now I understood…”

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“Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again”

24
Q

“You influence…”

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“You influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realise it. You really are a part of me.”

25
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“Antonia has …”

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“Antonia has always been one to leave images in the mind that did not fade.”

26
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“I tried…”

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“I tried to shut Ántonia out of my mind. I was bitterly disappointed in her. I could not forgive her for becoming an object of pity, while Lena Lingard, for whom people had always foretold trouble, was now the leading dressmaker of Lincoln, much respected in Black Hawk.”

27
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“All foreigners…”

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“All foreigners were ignorant people who couldn’t speak English.” - NOT Jim’s view classmates

28
Q

“Tee-ach…”

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“Tee-ach my Antonia!”

29
Q

“I never came upon…”

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“I never came upon the place without emotion”

30
Q

“The Shimerdas were…”

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“The Shimerda’s were the first Bohemian family to come to this part of the country. Krajiek was their only interpreter, and could tell them anything he chose.”

31
Q

“My grandmother…”

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“My grandmother always spoke in a very loud tone to foreigners as if they were deaf.”

32
Q

“The country girls…”

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“the country girls were considered a menace to the social order.”

33
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“I had a feeling…”

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“I had a feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction.”

34
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“I can…”

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“I can work like mans now”