“Ski instructors don’t come any more wonderful than Dieter,” explained Lady Paulina.
Thaddeus Crewes, The Seven Long Years.
“I am expressing concern, Samantha. Do you not see my eyebrows?”
Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.
In writing Ulysses, Joyce regards himself as being God. And as one who fervently hates God, he almost hates himself. Almost.
Hecuba Gathers, A Purely Physical World.
“But the world needs to know.”
“Know what, David? Every little thought you have?”
Lawrence Bird, Make It So.
“Full delusion, Angela. That is clearly the way to go.”
Stephanie Biggers, Cat Farming in Nigeria.
“And what is Platonism, Andrew? It is dwelling on things in general.”
Mark Anthony, The Tale of the Mirror.
“There is no need to resist mirrors, Deborah, but do not seek them out.”
Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.
“Everybody hates him,” claimed Weldon. “Everybody hates him now, and everybody hated him seven years ago.”
Carla Marks, The Murder Matter.
“I just want to be let alone!” is a vicious existential attack on the conventional way of being. Garbo is engaging in an act of savagery.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Sardonic View of the Movies.
“What gets me, Inspector, is that this stuff was not even surreptitious. He was operating openly, in the light of day!”
Ellen Entwhistle, The Caravan Murders.
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