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The novel reflects many of the themes of the period such as the fear of change felt by some and the desperate longing for change endured by others.
“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Smallbone Deceased
― Smallbone Deceased
“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
“I didn’t get to that pudding in time. It had boiled dry. I think it’s really all right—just a little scorched perhaps. In case it tasted rather nasty I thought I would open a bottle of those raspberries I put up last summer. They seem to have a bit of mould on top but they say nowadays that that doesn’t matter. It’s really rather good for you—practically penicillin.”
― Mrs. McGinty's Dead
― Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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