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“habit of calling each other ‘Jim’. No darlings or honeys or babes for them. In his low American drawl and her bright English chirp they Jimmed the Old Year out. ‘Hey, Jim?’ ‘Yes, Jim?’ ‘Happy New Year, Jim.’ ‘Happy New Year to you too, Jim.’ ‘I love you, Jim.’ ‘I love you too, Jim.’ 1990 arrived with a smile in the company of Jim and Jim.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“may classify the styles of the various authors in broad divisions as (1) dry, (2) plain, (3) neat, (4) elegant, (5) florid, (6) bombastic.”
― Joseph Devlin, How to Speak and Write Correctly

“He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir