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“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth: Playgoer's Edition

“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”
― Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer: Truisms And Essays

“A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.”
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them