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“Capitalism detests sleep because it’s a time when nothing gets sold or consumed.”
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‘A woman went to get a taxi with her son at the Isle of Dogs. At the street corner it was all whores hanging around waiting for trade. “Mum, mum: what are all those women doing?” Mum was embarrassed, but quick-thinking: “I expect it’s the sailors’ wives waiting for their husbands to come back from
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There was no breeze except the wind of the ship’s own speed; and that was like a blast from the engine-room. Stretched in their chairs Philip and Elinor watched the gradual diminution against the sky of a jagged island of bare red rock. From the deck above came the sound of people playing shuffle-board. Walking
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From Books Do Furnish A Room (Dance to the Music of Time) “[Trapnel] borrowed literally to keep alive, a good example of something often unrecognized outside the world of books, that a writer can have his name spread all over the papers, at the same time net perhaps only a hundred pounds to keep
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From The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions): “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
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From Books Do Furnish A Room (Dance to the Music of Time) “[Trapnel] looked about thirty, tall, dark, with a beard. Beards, rarer in those days than they became later, at that period hinted of submarine duty, rather than the arts, social protest or a subsequent fashion simply for much more hair.”
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‘An artist does not live a personal life as we do, he hides it, forcing us to go to his books if we wish to touch the true source of his feelings.’
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When Anna came down for breakfast on Tuesday 12th May, she found the room more crowded than was usual for half past eight. She showed her card marked ‘Buffet’ to the woman on duty, helped herself to fruit juice and looked for an empty table. She had to go right over by the wall to
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“The morals of the time were, as we know, severe. But exceptions were made, often with alacrity. This was one of a handful of aristocratic principles, according to which ordinary citizens were second-class people, but the occasional middle-class officer was made personal equerry to the Emperor; according to which Jews were barred from claiming high
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Virginia Rounding: Author, editor, proofreader, indexer 