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“He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man’s brains.”

“Tell me seriously that all this is true, and that you are happy because of it — because you love me best.”
“It is all true, Fred, and I am happy because of it — because I love you best.”

“Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtue of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom.”

“Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall . . . The key of a beautiful edifice is thrust into my hand, and I am told to walk in and admire. My poor boy, you have been sadly ungrateful, and now you had better keep very quiet and never grumble again.

Thomas Cromwell did nothing wrong.
(Yet.)

World’s Best Fisherman is already one of my favorite short stories ever.

Beautifully written yet disgustingly bleak

Attempt ~5 in my 6 years of owning this book