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“The sawdust was spilled out of the afternoon; nothing you did could mend it, and Philip was scared.”
― 21 Stories By Graham Greene: Tales of Innocence & Corruption
― 21 Stories By Graham Greene: Tales of Innocence & Corruption
“For him the pond had ceased to be a symbol. Of old, each time it rose from the sands and spread its silver surface to the sky it proclaimed that the Cherrington children had measured their strength against the universe, and won. They had imposed an order; they had left a mark; they had added a meaning to life.”
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“Horace had married her for her money, hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life.”
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“Of course they would be angry with him at home, very angry, and say he had told a story but that wouldn’t be true, because he had slipped out of the house without telling anyone.’ (Eustace’s advocate unscrupulously mixed his tenses, choosing whichever seemed the more reassuring.)”
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“She, for one, would have no share in maintaining the pretense of which she had been a victim: the pretense that a man and a woman, forced into the narrowest of personal relations, must remain there till the end, though they may have outgrown the span of each other’s natures as the mature tree outgrows the iron brace about the sapling.”
― The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
― The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
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