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Jane Gardam
“Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.”
Jane Gardam, Last Friends

Domenico Starnone
“exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

Elizabeth Jenkins
“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

Penelope Fitzgerald
“But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,’ Fritz told Karoline. ‘It will not truly exist until you have heard it.’ ‘Is”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower: A Novel

Domenico Starnone
“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

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