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“Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the guests and enticed them to…

— Fierce Dolan

“But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness…

— Donna Tartt

“I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there…

— PG Wodehouse

“We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused…

— Kerry Reichs

“Sneaking out unnoticed they left the party way too early that summer night. Him swinging her high heels while she, barefoot, playfully zigzagging. They…

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“During my lunch hour, which I spent on a bench in a nearby park, the waitresses would come and sit beside me talking at…

— Richard Wilbur

“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“Squeezed into a corner, elbow to elbow, they drank cheap red wine and feasted on bread and oysters, straight from the paper. The food…

— Laura Madeleine

“Poor fellow, he needed handmade shoes because of his ‘awkward feet’ and Savile Row suits because he wasn’t lucky enough to have the figure…

— Len Deighton

“Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying…

— Lauren Willig

“Isn’t it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on…

— Chang-rae Lee

“Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray…

— Nelson Mandela