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Book cover for Death in Venice
Preoccupied with the tasks imposed upon him by his ego and the European psyche, overburdened by the obligation to produce, averse to diversion, and no lover of the external world and its variety, he was quite content with the view of the ...more
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Penelope Fitzgerald
“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”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower: A Novel

Jane Gardam
“Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.”
Jane Gardam, Last Friends

Elizabeth Jenkins
“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?”
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

Elizabeth Jenkins
“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.”
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

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