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“It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.”
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”
“You Englishmen, said Herr Wurter. You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.”
“You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.”
“It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you dont happen to like the...”
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last dark...”
“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Duran...”
