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In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
Arthur Wesley Wheen • All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
life was simple only when one concurred with the wishes of others.
Anita Brookner • Undue Influence
Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
But his presence imposed order and allowed freedom. Burdens were lifted.
Ian McEwan • Atonement
Sylvia Beach started the bookshop Shakespeare and Company and published James Joyce’s Ulysses when no commercial publisher could or would. Bryher, born Winifred Ellerman, daughter of the richest man in England, used her inheritance to fund new writing and film. Natalie Barney aspired to live her life as a work of art and make Paris the sapphic cent
... See moreDiana Souhami • No Modernism Without Lesbians
Christohper Isherwood • The world in the evening : Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Frl. Schroeder can go on like this, without repeating herself, by the hour. When I have been listening to her for some time, I find myself relapsing into a curious trance-like state of depression. I begin to feel profoundly unhappy. Where are all those lodgers now? Where, in another ten years, shall I be, myself? Certainly not here.
Christopher Isherwood • Goodbye To Berlin
