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“They had started speaking of "women and children" - that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times. Each felt that all he loved best in the world was at stake, demanded revenge, and was filled with a not unpleasing glow...”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
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“I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.”
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“They continued to jeer at him, but he said nothing more. He leaned on the rail, looking down at the trout which he had already spent, and suddenly the acrimony, the conflict, was gone from their voices…they too partaking of that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority. I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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