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“So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.”
― Rose Macaulay

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.”
― Woody Allen

“I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.”
― Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life