February 2012
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Maybe they had no faith, Tom thought. Maybe they were like me, always expecting...
– Sloan Wilson — The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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January 2012
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and they are mine for life.
– Muriel Spark — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
December 2011
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Peter, however, has other feelings. He believes that a real work of art can be...
– Michael Cunningham — By Nightfall
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November 2011
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Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had...
– Jonathan Franzen — The Corrections
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October 2011
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Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and...
– James Wood — How Fiction Works
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for...
– George Eliot — Middlemarch
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In the life of those people like me whose lives have slipped off the track,...
– Orhan Pamuk - The New Life
September 2011
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I’ve got a mean disposition. Attempted assassination makes me mad.
– Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett
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Young boys too shy to talk are the very best conversational practice. Clumsy...
– “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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