To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

Carol Shields

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Topic

Conformity Man as social animal

Author

Carol Shields

Source

Larry's Party

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

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No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

John Donne
Source
Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1624 1620s 17th century
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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.