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His tone had that same punchable quality you heard when government ministers dripping with inherited wealth lectured the nation on the culture of entitlement.
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game--it was a modified version of the game. It was a version invented for two friends so that they can get some practice and pass the time divertingly while they eat in the station for their train to arrive”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.”
― The Rachel Papers
― The Rachel Papers
“You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.”
― The Rachel Papers
― The Rachel Papers
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