“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”
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“It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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“You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.”
― The Girl in Blue
― The Girl in Blue
“One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.”
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“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”
― The Girl in Blue
― The Girl in Blue
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