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“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”
― Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
― Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn’t quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn’t love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful “just deserts,” which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.”
― Fling and Other Stories
― Fling and Other Stories
“It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.”
― 44 Scotland Street
― 44 Scotland Street
“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.”
― Fling and Other Stories
― Fling and Other Stories
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A group for people interested in the Anglo Saxon period.
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