12 AP Literature and Composition
Slaughterhouse Five
“So it Goes”/ “Poo tee weet”
Oedipus “I curse myself as well…if by any chance
he proves to be an intimate of our house”
“What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see
could bring me joy”
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
A Streetcar Named Desire: “I don't want realism. I
want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to
people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the
truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's
sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
Antigone “No man alive is free/ From error”
Teireseias
“I have always depended on the kindness of
strangers.”
“I have longer to please the dead than please the
living here”
“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is
not forgiveable…”
Lysistrata: Magistrate: “May I die a thousand deaths
ere I obey one who wears a veil!”
“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”
Calonice: “My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter
you've summoned us women to consider.What's up?
Something big?”
Lysistrata: “Very big.”
Hamlet: "Frailty, thy name is women!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
"Though this be madness, yet there is method
in't."
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
"Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels
sing thee to thy rest."
Julius Caesar: "Beware the ides of March"
“But I am constant as the northern star,”
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But
in ourselves, that we are underlings."
"Et tu, Brutè? -- Then fall Caesar."
“Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."
Waiting for Godot: “Nothing to be done.”
“I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone
forever.”
“I was asleep! (Despairingly.) Why will you never
let me sleep?
I felt lonely.”
Frankenstein: “I am alone and miserable…”
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great
and sudden change.”
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of
anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen
angel...”
“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and
then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six
blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”
“We've had this date with each other from the
beginning.”
The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the
current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can
be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn.
‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard
drinking people.”
“It takes two to make an accident.”
The Bluest Eye: “Love is never any better than the
lover. ”
“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of
what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the
beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but
apparently only me.”
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked
people love wickedly, violent people love violently,
weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly,
but the love a free man is never safe.”
“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will
not bear and when the land kills of its own volition,
we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”