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"I wonderfully readable comment on Dickens. Spoiler alert for a few of his novels that I haven't read yet. A very interesting take that doesn't hold back in analysing Dickens' failures as an author." Nov 29, 2017 01:01PM

 
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“Since Betty was on the pill or took precautions of her own which Graham did not choose to enquire into, the marital bed was untrammelled by tedious prophylaxis so that what Graham had been expecting to find an onerous and even distasteful duty unexpectedly partook of a freedom and absence of restraint that he found exhilerating.”
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“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
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“You, minion, are too saucy.”
William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”
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“Each item of business was described in the expansive, flourishing script that Balfour associated in his mind, with a man who could afford to waste his ink on curlicues.”
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