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“Besides, I hated him but I loved him too. Yes. I know all about that sort of thing. Christ, I should, I'd heard nothing else my last two years in New York. 'They have this terrific love-hate thing going,' everybody said about everybody else. 'You watch, it's going to destroy them-.' But never about me. When I took to someone I took to them, and when I took against them ditto. Mostly I felt indifference.”
― The Old Man and Me
― The Old Man and Me
“The shabbier the snobbier.”
― The Old Man and Me
― The Old Man and Me
“These waiters were hand-picked for pleurisy, deafness, and a variety of speech defects. They were flushed of skin, gnarled of hand. The dishes that jumped on to the floor from their palsied hands were never referred to again, as it were, but just lay there for the rest of the evening to be ground under foot by passers-by.”
― The Old Man and Me
― The Old Man and Me
“Bollie was a sort of chain-talker, lighting one end of a conversation to another without letting the first go out.”
― The Old Man and Me
― The Old Man and Me
“She stared at the goldfish bowl uncertainly. “I can never remember whether I’ve fed him or not,” she said suddenly. “I kept on feeding them and they kept on dying all the time. All but one. So I don’t know if he killed the rest or if I was over-feeding them or starving them or what. You’re supposed to give them a pinch of food every day. But how big is a pinch anyway?”
― The Old Man and Me
― The Old Man and Me
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