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Joe Kelley
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in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
October 27, 1944
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Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Trollope
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By contemplating on significant events in life and by imagining how I would re-do them if I had a chance.
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Rebecca Scott
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2014
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2 editions
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Paton and Racism
Any novelist who explores racism, especially one who detests it and wants to excoriate it, is often tempted to create characters who give speeches or indulge in dramatic dialogue. Sometimes these speeches are powerful and convincing, and sometimes the dialogue is moving and crackling with justifiable anger. But all too often, this temptation leads to a kind of preaching when a good scene might do
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“He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.”
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
“She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.”
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“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I mean he's an art bum...”
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“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance, but that, after all, is the only stage where most of us are likely to meet them.”
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“Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.”
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