There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

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Topic

Growing up Childhood

Author

Graham Greene

Source

The Power and the Glory

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. William Heineman, 1940, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

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Topic
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Author

Hugo Black
Source
Everson v. Board of Education
Medium
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Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1947 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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Topic
The world Death
Speaker
Robert Jordan

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
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Medium
Novel
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

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It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

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Topic
Things get better Hard times

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)
Source
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1650 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon. London: John Williams, 1650.