Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did.


“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― A Judgement in Stone
― A Judgement in Stone

“So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
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Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
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“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
― The Passion
― The Passion

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