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‘Dorian Gray’.
Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)
‘Peut-on avoir l’honneur?’
Graham Greene • The Quiet American
The mind is a wild liar and I don’t trust much in it that I find there.
Sebastian Barry • Days Without End: A Novel
Father Quixote found that he was in a lavatory. In the mirror by the washbasin he could see that his captor was fumbling at the latch of his brief-case. To take out a gun? Was he to be shot in the back of the neck? Hastily, too hastily, he began an Act of Contrition under his breath: ‘Oh God, I am sorry and beg pardon for all my fish …’
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote
from the sequestered innocence of 1962,
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
‘I have something to confess to you, father. Oh, not in the confessional. I’m not asking any forgiveness from that myth of yours or mine up there, only from you.’
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote
