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“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations.”
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“Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
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