He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.
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The Sun Also Rises
A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what l
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I don’t hate you. I just dislike you. I dislike you thoroughly and I’m through with you.
Isn’t it rotten? There isn’t any use my telling you I love you.
I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.
Oh, darling, please stay by me. Please stay by me and see me through this.
We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.
We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.
I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.
We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.
Isn’t it rotten? There isn’t any use my telling you I love you.
She looked away. I thought she was looking for another cigarette. Then I saw she was crying. I could feel her crying. Shaking and crying. She wouldn’t look up. I put my arms around her.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
I am always in love.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
I heard them talking but I did not listen.
Isn’t it rotten? There isn’t any use my telling you I love you.
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
'Listen Jake... don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?'