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This wasn’t plain old housing-projects “cheese food”; nor was it some smelly, curdled, reluctant Swiss cheese material snatched from a godforsaken bodega someplace, gathering mold in some dirty display case while mice gnawed at it nightly,
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“Music never comes unbidden to the mind. It is a beautiful private language, independent of words, made up of association and memory. And no one listens to it.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
“Time is probably no more unkind to sporting characters than it is to other people, but physical decay unsustained by respectability is somehow more noticeable.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
“On the desk, surrounded by books and papers, was a blue bowl filled with ridiculous, long-stemmed plants grown all out of proportion and fourteen or fifteen inches tall. The old age of flowers (these were violets, mostly) is as strange and as pathetic as the old age of people.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
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