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Patrick McGrath quotes: The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.

The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

Patrick McGrath quotes: These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

Patrick McGrath quotes: He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.

He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

Patrick McGrath quotes: We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment.

We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment.

Patrick McGrath quotes: As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.

As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?

Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?

Patrick McGrath quotes: A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

Patrick McGrath quotes: Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.