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paroemiological
“his vices are science, his family, and the gymnasium.”
Everybody seems bent on making fun of me today,
he was one of those men who have no need of conversational partners: all they require is listeners.
Apple Dumpling almost sobbed.
“Children and literature are incompatible.”
She was very good at clever repartee, told risqué stories charmingly, and (like all the women I’d ever known thus far in my life) was terribly aliterary.
Aunt Julia went out every day to have lunch or tea with one or another of her many suitors, but she saved her evenings for me.
“prostituting my pen,” that is to say, writing book reviews and articles for literary supplements and periodicals
Why should the victim sit with folded hands as he’s being cuckolded?
one should behave like a gentleman when dealing with gentlemen and like a bastard when dealing with bastards.
oneiric filicide lugubriously
I’ll do a Caesarean on the girl and then I’ll go have a verbena-and-mint tea with you.”
more incapable than ever of listening, of conversing, of remembering that there was someone with him.
with a decor we thought was “existentialist.”
“Purity, like the alphabet, is best beaten into people’s heads”
