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“I cannot see much good in the world or much likelihood of good. There seems to me a definite bias in human nature towards ill, towards the immediate convenience, the ugly, the cheap ... I rub my hands and say 'Hurry up, you foulers of a good world, and destroy yourselves faster'.”
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
“God’s grace is like a weather system, I thought: sunny, or cloudy, sometimes stormy, or an eerie emptiness that might be a prelude to anything, an uncertainty that tests faith.”
― My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents
― My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents
“The doctor opened the window and the noise of the city swelled all at once. The brief, repeated whine of a mechanical saw rose from a neighboring shop. Rieux shook himself. That was where certainty lay, there in this daily work. The rest hung on threads, and on insignificant movements, you couldn’t stop for it. The main thing was to do his job well.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Smale was a short, ruddy-faced man whose squarish appearance gave the impression of having been carpentered”
― Saint Jack
― Saint Jack
“Marietta was one of those large suburban houses which no family can now afford to occupy. It suggested a personage rather than a house, a minor royalty in flannels. There was so much collar and shirt-front of white balcony. There were top windows like eyes pouched by late rich dining, lower windows like a pair of bellies, the red face whiskered with creepers, the portico enlarged like a drinker's nose.”
― Mr. Beluncle
― Mr. Beluncle
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