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Quotes from The Blackboard Jungle — Evan Hunter

1926–2005 United States

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They'd taught him how to milk cows, and now they expected him to tame lions.

The Blackboard Jungle (1954)

To spend his allotted time on earth as a bank teller or an insurance salesman would have seemed an utter waste to Rick. Women, he had reflected had no such problem. Creation had been given to them as a gift and a woman was self-sufficient within her own creative shell. A man needed more which perhaps was one reason why a woman could never understand a man’s concern for the job he had to do.

The Blackboard Jungle (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Evan Hunter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.