Michael Anson

“But in the genealogical plots of Dickens, which manage, against all the odds, and through extravagantly implausible coincidences, to work themselves out against the hostile background of the vast London crowds, we can identify the same narratological problem to which Joyce and Proust seek a queer structural solution: the competition for control of the narrative between the genealogical family and alternative forms of human connections.”
― Barry McCrea, In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust

“I will have but one mistress and no master”
― queen Elizabeth I

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde