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I keep having books I read in college days get elected for reading in the book club. Which means plenty of Proustian Floods of association and nostalgia. I recall laughing a lot when I first read this but recent rereads of classics have shown me some
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“It’s queer what an inch or two of fat can do.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“There was something vaguely queer about his appearance.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“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’.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“It’s a queer thing, I thought, to be known as ‘Mr So-and-so, the well-known anti-Fascist’. A queer trade, anti-Fascism.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“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.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
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