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“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
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