‘You sound like a fridge magnet…’
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Book Review: Good Wives
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way…”
Book Review: Dubliners
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe…”
Book Review: Dracula
‘Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings…’
Book Review: Down And Out In Paris And London
‘It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety…’
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Book Review: Child of God
‘You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don’t. I think people are the same from the day God first made one…’
Book Review: Candide
“Let us cultivate our garden…’
Book Review: Brave New World
‘Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle…’
Book Review: Born to Run
‘When it comes to luck, you make your own…’
Book Review: Bird Box
‘It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it tear you in pieces…’
