Edward

“Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. But why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you’ll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they’re only a kind of fantasy that one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“Do you realize there isn’t a Gentile character in here who isn’t slavishly in love with some Jew?”
― John Updike, Bech Is Back

“If you made a list of Hilda’s remarks throughout the day, you’d find three bracketed together at the top—’We can’t afford it’, ‘It’s a great saving’, and ‘I don’t know where the money’s to come from’.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“in the years ahead discover his métier as a writer, that enduring profession of skilled liars,”
― James Carlos Blake, The Killings of Stanley Ketchel