“If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?”
― The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
― The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”
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The Penguin Press
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Virago Modern Classics
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