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An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: “real things” which were unfrequent and priceless, simply “things” which formed the routine stuff of life; and “ghost things,” also called “fogs,” such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
“Robbery. They’ve had ’em for a few days. Two guys were cuffed together in the men’s John in Jordan Marsh, in the Omni store. They claimed they were cuffed up by some crazy cop who took their money.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)
In his memoir Self-Consciousness, John Updike wrote that he was offering his as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.”
Terry Gross • All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
I co-wrote a comedy for Sky, although by then James Murdoch had stepped down from BSkyB. Incidentally, if you ‘followed the money’ up the chain of previous TV shows I’ve been involved with, you could arrive at Silvio Berlusconi, a man I once described on TV as ‘an ejaculating penis with a Prime Minister attached to it’. And this book is published
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synecdoche
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
No mates exist for countless miles around, and a chestnut, though both male and female, will not serve itself.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
consorting with those who, too, cultivated self-eradication.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
What other way did one advertise? One had to be realistic.