Sirens Quotes by Ralph Ellison

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• A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy… — Herb Caen
• The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the… — Unknown Author
• Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been… — Lance Secretan
• Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath
• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the… — Esther M. Friesner
• Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking… — Ava Gardner
• For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. — D.B.C. Pierre
• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic… — Unknown Author
• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor
• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry
• In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren… — Frank Chodorov
• Italy's siren call lures us more and more. — Frances Mayes

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