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She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss ... '

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.