“but I don’t want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”


“We asked him what colour he called it, and he said he didn’t know. He didn’t think there was a name for the colour. The man had told him it was an Oriental design. George put it on, and asked us what we thought of it. Harris said that, as an object to hang over a flower-bed in early spring to frighten the birds away, he should respect it; but that, considered as an article of dress for any human being, except a Margate nigger, it made him ill. George got quite huffy; but, as Harris said, if he didn’t want his opinion, why did he ask for it?”
― Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
― Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Harris’s fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song; the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris’s friends who have heard him try, is that he can’t and never will be able to, and that he ought not to be allowed to try.”
― Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
― Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“I’ve always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
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