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“...and there will be no more interruptions and you will be staying for dessert, coffee, and cigars.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.”
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“Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“When I meet a cat, I say, “Poor Pussy!” and stop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace. When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care.”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping—that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.”
― Stones from the River
― Stones from the River
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