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most choices we make in life are equally outrageous.” Johnnie Walker lightly touched his silk hat, as if making sure it was still in place.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
Team Δy chief Alan Britton, M.S. & J.D., of whom one sensed that no one had ever even once made fun, was an immense and physically imposing man, roughly 6'1" in every direction, with a large smooth shiny oval head in the precise center of which were extremely tiny close-set features arranged in the invulnerably cheerful expression of a man
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
Someone was coming down the stairs. I could hear the click of high-heeled shoes. I waited, perhaps still in some faint hope that it might be somebody I knew. It wasn’t. It was a young woman, cheap and smart, with that tight-black-sweater-and-skirt smartness made to look very Place Vendôme with ropes of improbable pearls. She was blonde, and chewed
... See moreMary Stewart • Nine Coaches Waiting
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Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
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Ian Fleming • Casino Royale
A little light has gone out of our lives with the leaving of lovely Gloria, who has completed her scenes here and gone off on an Austrian holiday, where her warm exuberance is probably melting the mountain snows. She is quite a girl; she endeared herself to the whole unit, and, for myself, I couldn’t have wished for a more delightful double agent t
... See moreSir Roger Moore KBE • The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die
Back in the village, with our soured relationships, we are neurotic, but the wood releases our full-blown madness. Birds and animals talk to us, departed souls speak.