Cotter slammed the Ferrari around and headed for the main house and the lobby with its stuffed animal heads. Mrs. Ramsey was behind the desk, her mouth and eyes made up to look like a 1930s Joan Crawford. It wasn't a successful venture. Hugh Pentecost (in Murder As Usual)
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
Photo by Rupert Britton on Unsplash When all's said and done, the idea of the uniqueness of the individual is nothing more than pompous absurdity. We remember our lives, Schopenhauer wrote somewhere, a little better than a novel we once read. Michel Houellebecq (in Platform )
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