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Elspeth Davie
“The absorbed, disapproving regard of the middle-aged woman for her own face disappeared as he came up. ('The Snow Heart')”
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Simon Vestdijk
“Verder ken ik 'r een, die is uit Oss afkomstig; nou, meneer weet hoe 't dáár toegaat, in Oss, daar vermoorden ze hun eigen vader als ze jarig zijn. Hij heeft me wel 's verteld uit z'n jeugd, hoe de jongens erop uitgingen, op winteravonden, om ieder die ze tegenkwamen, en 't hoefden niet eens vijanden te zijn, met hun kop in 'n plas te houden tot ze gestikt waren. Alleen maar voor de lol. Dat soort lui pleegt 'n moord zoals u uw neus snuit...”
Simon Vestdijk, Pastorale 1943

Penelope Fitzgerald
“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to such a person. His emotions, from lack of exercise, had disappeared almost altogether. Adaptability and curiosity, he had found, did just as well.”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

P.F. Thomése
“Men telde drie verschijningen: de storm, de walvis en de heilige op de hondenkar. Volgens sommigen echter waren het er vier: de storm, de walvis, de heilige en de overstroming. Anderen kwamen tot vijf of zes of zeven -- en zo viel de waarheid in veelheid uiteen.”
P.F. Thomése, Zuidland

Robertson Davies
“The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.”
Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

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