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“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a great deal…

— Andrew Killeen

“He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.”

— Louise Penny

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we’re seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience…

— Molière

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan