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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“It is Cinderella in reverse. It is hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Nothing is as thrilling as they said it would be: no one is amusing, as clever, as attractive or as interesting. The sun never shines as bright as it used to, and even the fiercest thunderstorm lacks any real sense of drama or pizzaz. As the curtain falls, Group Captain Charming has left her for someone more suitable and has gone to live in France, and Buttons, in his zip-up jumpsuit, has taken up with a wearying succession of younger lovers. When Cinderella dies, her little glass slipper is put up for auction, a memento of days of hope and innocence. The catalogue entry reads: 'Only worn once.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“All thirty-one of the Lavish lawyers stood up and spoke at once, incurring a total cost to their clients of of AM$119.28.”
― Making Money
― Making Money
“Princess Margaret felt most at home in the company of the camp: the cultured and the waspish. It was to be her misfortune that such a high proportion of them kept diaries and moreover, diaries written with a view to publication. To a man they were mesmerised less by her image than by the cracks to be found in it.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
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