She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J.D. Salinger

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Topic

Infatuation Being in love Love

Author

J.D. Salinger

Source

A Girl I Knew

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

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Topic
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Speaker
Prye

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Margaret Millar
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Millar, Margaret. The Weak-Eyed Bat. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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Topic
Being in love Love

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 130 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Statement Type
Profession of love
Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 130, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 130.