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All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.
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It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
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At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded.
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Nevertheless, she treasured the idea that the Fauberts were connected to the earth in some wholesome way that the rest of us had forgotten.
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Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.
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Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,' said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.
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As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?
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But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing.
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Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.
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His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.
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The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
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After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.
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She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.
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She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.
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the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train ...
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The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.
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People think they are individuals because they use the word "I" so often, Patrick commented.
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Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
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She tried to walk more slowly up the hill. God, her mind was racing, racing in neutral,
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The best way to contradict him is to let him talk
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The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls.
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He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.
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It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place,
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Nobody can find me here, he thought. And then he thought, what if nobody can find me here?
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People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
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Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.
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They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don't need to promise.
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It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
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I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
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Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about
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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
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The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
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Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
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Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
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No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
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We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.
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In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.
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It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.
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You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
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I feel on the verge of a great transformation, which may be as simple as becoming interested in other things.
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Rome wasn't deconstructed in a day.
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I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.
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