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run down Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about run down
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“We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already run down.”
James Baldwin
author
Sonny's Blues
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housing projects
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“The beat-looking grass lying around isn’t enough to make their lives green, the hedges will never hold out the streets, and they know it.”
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“Nothing else for it. Knock it down and start again.”
Michael
Mr Batly
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“And we ran down the garden, with the snowballs in our arms, toward the house, and smoke, indeed, was pouring out of the dining-room, and the gong was bombilating, and Mrs. Prothero was announcing ruing like a town crier in Pompeii.”
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“However, just as she says this, her husband is nearly run down by a passing bicyclist. The Mallards continue their search...”

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