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It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring. Kingsley
“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
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“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective.”
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― The Moon and Sixpence [Annotated]
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