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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The Moviegoer

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live.

Never Fall Down

There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.

New Girl

Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.

The Number of Missing

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Neuromancer

I know this woman.” “Who the hell is she?” He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.

No Place to Run

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

North and South

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

Neverwhere

Lawn looked down at his patient. "In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Night Watch

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Norwegian Wood

Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

Looking for Alaska

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Life of Christ

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

A Long Way Down

he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper

Lover Enshrined

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.

The Later Poems, 1837-1864: Volumes I and II

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Like Life

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Les Misérables

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

The Lord of the Rings

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Let the Great World Spin