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“He sat heavily down on a tall tubular adjustable chair, which shortened suddenly under his weight and split him on the floor. Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of a tragedy.”
― Our Man in Havana
― Our Man in Havana
“It always seemed strange to Wormold that he continued to exist for others when he was not there.”
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“I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.”
― Temporary Help: Poems
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.”
― Temporary Help: Poems
“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.”
― Late Nights on Air
― Late Nights on Air
“Delirium is a disease of the night.”
― The Lost Weekend
― The Lost Weekend
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