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“You couldn’t protect the people you loved – that was the lesson of history, and it struck him therefore that to love someone meant to be opened up to a radically heightened level of suffering.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“Life is far too imporant a thing ever to talk seriously abou it”
― Lady Windemere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman
― Lady Windemere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman
“Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apart, until one day it dawns on you that this is normal life now...”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
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