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Penelope Fitzgerald
“Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.'
'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Thornton Wilder
“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All families lived in a wasteful atmosphere of custom and kissed one another with secret indifference. She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armour of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.”
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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

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

Henry James
“She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of him, she had carefully preserved the water of this ablution, which she handed about for analysis.”
Henry James, The Coxon Fund

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