“The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.”
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.”
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“You do not escape from money merely by being moneyless”
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.”
― Volomari Volotisen ensimmäinen vaimo ynnä muuta vanhaa tavaraa
― Volomari Volotisen ensimmäinen vaimo ynnä muuta vanhaa tavaraa
“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.”
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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