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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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“There was something vaguely queer about his appearance.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“It’s queer what an inch or two of fat can do.”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“in the years ahead discover his métier as a writer, that enduring profession of skilled liars,”
― The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
― The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
“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
“Murderers were not writing literature, after all; they were murdering.”
― Something in the Shadows
― Something in the Shadows
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