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“And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was interrupted, for he was…

— Stella Gibbons

“you'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a gesture as…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was interrupted, for he was…

— Stella Gibbons

“Holy Christ! There was a frickin' melee in the alley. Lessers. Brothers. Two civilians crouched and quivering in the middle. And big bad Butch…

— J.R. Ward

“When the speech concluded it was very late. One of Congressman Bachus’s aides took me back to the office to get Colston. We opened…

— Noah Galloway

“When I broke, Porter was there to pick up the pieces. And, when Porter lost sight of the light, I was there to hold…

— Aly Martinez

“Charles’ conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Now I understood why Russell would ask me to drive him to different places and wait for him in the car while he did…

— Charles Brandt

“It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay in bed…

— Julia Quinn

“Once, at one of the very rare and savory moments when my own teammates grudgingly allowed me to take the ball around one of…

— J.D. Salinger

“He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said…

— Charles Dickens