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The past is not just that which happened to you. Sometimes it is that which you just imagined.
“Imogen,” he said with forced patience, “you have plenty of occupations of your own, and you don’t care to do the things that give a great deal of pleasure to me – when I have time to do them. You don’t want to fish or shoot and you can’t drive my car, which would be a help to me sometimes. Am I to understand that you object to my having the companionship of another woman who can do these things?”
― The Tortoise and the Hare
― The Tortoise and the Hare
“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
― The Tortoise and the Hare
― The Tortoise and the Hare
“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
― Trust: A Novel
― Trust: A Novel
“exhausted.”
― Trust: A Novel
― Trust: A Novel
“But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,’ Fritz told Karoline. ‘It will not truly exist until you have heard it.’ ‘Is”
― The Blue Flower: A Novel
― The Blue Flower: A Novel
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