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Monday, August 15, 2016

Daily Dose


From The Sea, by John Banville

THE FURNISHINGS

"The furnishings too have an underground look to them, like things that subsided here over the years from some brighter place above."

From II, page 144

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Daily Dose

From The Untouchable, by John Banville

OLD AGE

"Old age, as someone whom I love once said, is not a venture to be embarked on lightly."

From pg. 197, this edition

Friday, September 16, 2011

Daily Dose

From The Lemur, by Benjamin Black

THE TROUBLE

"The trouble with smoking was that the desire to smoke was so much greater than the satisfaction afforded by actually smoking."


From Chapter 2, Louise