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Dubliners
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I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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“The room was in that disorder produced only by those who have always had servants.”
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“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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