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W. Somerset Maugham
“The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale

Marguerite Duras
“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”
Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

W. Somerset Maugham
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Philip Roth
“War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night”
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

Charles Dickens
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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