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Kingsley Amis
“For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.”
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Nevil Shute
“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
Nevil Shute, Round the Bend

Boris Pasternak
“There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented--- that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.”
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Émile Zola
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
Émile Zola

Raymond Carver
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
Raymond Carver

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