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“And sometimes I feel I’m no damn’ use at anything.”

“You knew Pregnitz was a fairy, of course?”

“The whole city lay under an epidemic of discreet infectious fear.”

“I put my genius into my life, not into my art.”

“He never personally answered a call if it could be avoided.”

‘I beg your pardon, Daddy.’

‘What’s the matter?’ I asked.
‘Things in general, dear boy. The state of this wicked world. A touch of Weltschmerz, that’s all.’

“I declare there were evenings when I was so depressed I’d half a mind to put my head in the oven.”

“I had to admit to myself that my feeling for Arthur had been largely possessive. He was my discovery, my property. I was as hurt as a spinster who has been deserted by her cat. And yet, after all, how silly of me. Arthur was his own master, he wasn’t accountable to me for his actions.”