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Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
she,—I mean Lucy,—has never been in the slightest hurry to be married;—that's all. But I shall regard it as a lapsus-lingua in you."
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
"No, I was not `playing' with the cat. I only picked it up to fondle it a bit. It was a rather appealing calico. I offered it a hot dog. However, the cat refused to eat it. It was an animal with some taste and decency."
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces

disk, “and as for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations by Eugene Dété)
Face. Sponge Bob Shit Pants. “No?” said Platt casually, misreading
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

In my short experience of litter in the Lubéron, the French themselves were the most likely offenders, but no Frenchman would accept that. At any time of the year, but particularly in the summer, it was well known that foreigners of one stripe or another were responsible for causing most of the problems in life. The Belgians, so it was said, were t
... See morePeter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
“Don’t you really think the sacred Notting Hill at all absurd?” “Absurd?” asked Wayne, blankly. “Why should I?”