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Martin Amis
“...Television is cretinizing me – I can feel it. Soon I’ll be like the TV artists. You know the people I mean. Girls who subliminally model themselves on kid-show presenters, full of faulty melody and joy, Melody and Joy. Men whose manners show newscaster interference, soap stains, film smears. Or the cretinized, those who talk on buses and streets as if TV were real, who call up networks with strange questions, stranger demands...If you lose your rug, you can get a false one. If you lose your laugh, you can get a false one. If you lose your mind, you can get a false one.”
Martin Amis, Money

Elizabeth Goudge
“Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.”
Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

Gillian Flynn
“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Angela Carter
“For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains”
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Gillian Flynn
“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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