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“One October afternoon Mrs Baker was having tea with Miss Verney and talking about the proposed broiler factory in the middle of the village where they both lived. Miss Verney, who had not been list...”
“He was intimately acquainted with the police of three countries, and he sat alone in a small restaurant not far from the Boulevard Montparnasse sipping an apéritif moodily, for he disliked Montparn...”
“...there is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace (Outside the Machine)”
“...What is not there you put in afterwards, for it is alive, this book, and it grows in your head. (Till September Petronella)”
“'Mein Lieb, Mon Cher, My Dear, Amigo,' the letter began (beginning of the story Tigers Are Better-looking)”
“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother, ‘because she pretty like pretty self’ Chri...”
“I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.”
“So it was all over, the advance and retreat, the doubts and hesitations. Everything finished, for better or for worse. (first lines)”
“I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.”
“It was a beautiful place - wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd find myself thinking, 'What I see is nothing - I want what...”
“Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.”
“...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.”
“'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes? No?'There are two beds, a big one for madame and a smaller one on the opposite side for monsieur. The wash-basin is shut off by a curtain. It is a large...”
“I...think about being hungry, being cold, being hurt, being ridiculed, as if it were in another life than this.This damned room - it's saturated with the past. . . .It's all the rooms I've ever sle...”
“It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known. It was almost like being born again. The colours were different, the smells different, the feeling things gave you right down ...”
“I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day. (Part One, 7th section)”
“...There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. (Part One, 9th section)”
“It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running. (Part tw...”
“She seemed to be contemplating a future at once monotonous and insecure with an indifference which was after all a sort of hard-won courage. (chapter 3)”
