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Five of the best book quotes about junk
01
“All the other steam shovels were being sold for junk, but Mike loved Mary Anne. He couldn’t do that to her.”
Virginia Lee Burton
author
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
book
Mike Mulligan
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Mary Anne
characters
steam shovel
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love
ᐧ
junk
concepts
02
″‘JUNK!’ shouted Crispin. ‘That wasn’t junk! It was a store... and a pirate ship... and a castle... and Space Base and you threw it all away.‘”
Ted Dewan
author
Crispin: The Pig Who Had it All
book
Crispin Tamsworth
character
special things
ᐧ
junk
ᐧ
throwing away
ᐧ
upset
concepts
03
″‘Look at all this stuff!’ shouted Nick. ‘Aw, it’s all broken,’ said Crispin. ‘It’s junk’. But his friends didn’t think so.”
Ted Dewan
author
Crispin: The Pig Who Had it All
book
Crispin Tamsworth
ᐧ
Penny
ᐧ
Nick
characters
friends
ᐧ
junk
concepts
04
“Sam came in from watching TV. She said it was stupid, fussing over so much junk. ‘Dinosaurs aren’t junk,’ Harry said.”
Ian Whybrow
author
Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs
book
Sam (Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs)
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Harry (Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs)
characters
stupidity
ᐧ
junk
ᐧ
dinosaurs
concepts
05
“If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
Dr. Benway
character
life
ᐧ
junk
ᐧ
tensions
ᐧ
relief
ᐧ
pleasure
concepts
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Mary Anne
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special things
Crispin Tamsworth
throwing away
upset
friends
Penny
Nick
stupidity
Sam (Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs)
Harry (Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs)
dinosaurs
Dr. Benway
life
tensions
relief
pleasure
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