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“That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don’t know their part.”
― No More Meadows
― No More Meadows
“When people are drunk the first time you meet them, you are inclined to think of them as permanent dipsomaniacs”
― No More Meadows
― No More Meadows
“Christine had wanted to continue the conversation where she was, with the unappetising tray of dressings balanced on her hip. The most interesting things never cropped up when you were sitting comfortably in chairs. It was always in transient places like halls or staircases or bathroom doorways that the really important things started to be said and you had to discuss them then and there, because the mood was lost if you moved away to a more suitable place.”
― No More Meadows
― No More Meadows
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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Raising the Middlebrow Book Club (1910-60)
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A bookclub that is member driven in its reading of the “middlebrow” genre and other undervalued women writers published in 1910-1960.
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