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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
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“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”
― The Ghost
― The Ghost
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Under The Deodars
― Under The Deodars
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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