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“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
― Flashman
― Flashman
“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
― Flashman and the Mountain of Light
― Flashman and the Mountain of Light
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
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“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
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