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"The Cut-Glass Bowl: An interesting story centering around the hardships of a married couple and a glas bowl they got as a wedding present. However, not my favourite." — May 21, 2016 02:04AM
"The Cut-Glass Bowl: An interesting story centering around the hardships of a married couple and a glas bowl they got as a wedding present. However, not my favourite." — May 21, 2016 02:04AM
“George feels a kind of patriotism for the freeways. He is proud that they are so fast, that people get lost on them and even sometimes panic and have to bolt for safety down the nearest cutoff. George loves the freeways because he can still cope with them; because the fact that he can cope proves his claim to be a functioning member of society. He can still get by.”
― A Single Man
― A Single Man
“He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if ever he got home to England; it was the caring about little things - the faith in ordinary life; the simplicity that made you break up a bit of bread into a paper bag, walk down to the beach and throw it to the gulls. It was this respect for triviality which he had never been allowed to possess; whether it was bread of the seagulls or love”
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― One Day
― One Day
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
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“He feels a nausea of distaste for them all; then sudden rage. Damn all food. Damn all life. He would like to abandon his shopping-cart, although it's already full of provisions.But that would make extra work for the clerks, and one of them is cute. The alternative, to put the whole lot back in the proper places himself, seems like a labour of Hercules; for the overpowering sloth of sadness is upon him. The sloth that ends in going to bed and staying there until you develop some disease.”
― A Single Man
― A Single Man
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