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“... the ladies were so dull - oh so dull ! It reminded me of our old game of each having so many nouns to introduce into a sentence...They took nouns that were signs of the things which gave evidence of wealth, - house-keepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds and all such things; and each one formed her speech so as to bring them all in, in the prettiest accidental manner possible.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Isn’t everyone, in a single moment of his life, capable of embodying—as you do—good and evil at the same time, letting himself be simultaneously led by two mysterious, different-colored threads that unwind from the same spool, so that the white thread ascends and the black one descends and, despite everything, the two come together again in his very fingers”

Excerpt from
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
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― Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz

“The stories... are about what happens when the shiny things we once believed in begin to rust before our eyes”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie