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From What Kind of Day Did You Have?, by Saul Bellow

EVIDENTLY

"Evidently, whether he liked it or not, his was a common sexual type. He was beyond feeling the disgrace of its commonness."

From page 41, this edition

Clerihew for an Irascible Wit

NIKOLAI LESKOV

Nikolai Leskov
Considered the cost of
Being bitterly funny
Well worth friends, family, and money.

A Caricature

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From The Complete Short Novels, by Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

IT'S NOT

"It's not everywhere you can meet such a nonentity.  His body is limp, feeble, and old, and in his intellect he in no way differs from a fat merchant's wife, who only feeds, guzzles, sleeps on a featherbed, and keeps he coachman as a lover."

From The Duel, Chapter IV

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From The Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac, translated by Howard Curtis

THE STORY

"They lived comfortably for another year.  The story of their life can be summed up in three words: They were happy.  In other  words, nothing deserving of comment befell them."

From page 72, this edition.

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From The Man of Fifty, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Andrew Piper

NEVERTHELESS

"Nevertheless, he managed to collect himself, and as his memory was never wanting in inherited goods, another classical passage leapt to mind."

From page 29, this edition.

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From The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan

LIKE

"They clutched at each other and collided in frenzied, awkward movements like beasts in a forest lunging at a ring of fire."

From Chapter 4

Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #63

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From The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James

ONE

"One of the thoughts that, as I don't in the least shrink now from noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone.  Someone would appear there at the turn of a path and would stand before me and smile and approve."

From Chapter Two

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From Daisy Miller, by Henry James

BUT

"But he kept his temper in a manner which suggested far-stretching intentions."

From Chapter Two

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From Daisy Miller, by Henry James

HE HAD

"He had a pleasant sense that she would be very approachable for consolatory purposes."

From Chapter One

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From The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas, by Mary Gordon

THE DAY

"The day stretched ahead of her, its openness luxurious and threatening."

From Fine Arts