Edward

“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

“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

“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.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“I am sentimental about my childhood—not my own particular childhood, but the civilization which I grew up in and which is now, I suppose, just about at its last kick.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air