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From Loaded Dice:
The Counterfeiters
Hardcover
with Journal of "The Counterfeiters"
By André Gide
The novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy
The journal translated from the French and Annotated by Justin O'Brien
| Quote: | ... "There are many households, you know - and those the most united - where it isn't always the husband who settles things. But you aren't married; such things don't interest you. ..."
"Oh!" said I, laughing, "but I'm a novelist."
"Then you have no doubt remarked that it isn't always from weakness of character that a man allos himself to be led by his wife."
"Yes," I conceded by way of flattery, "there are strong and even dominating men whom one discovers to be of a lamb-like docility in their married life."
"And do you know why?" he went on. "Nine times out of ten, when the husband submits to his wife, it is because he has something to be forgiven him. A virtuous woman, my dear fellow, takes advantage of everything. If the man stoops for a second, there she is sitting on his shoulders. Oh! we poor husbands are sometimes greatly to be pitied. When we are young, our one wish is to have chaste wives, without a thought of how much their virtue is going to cost us." (-- p. 211) |
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Summer Moonshine
Hardcover
By P.G. Wodehouse
| Quote: | An aching sense of desolation was gripping Jane. The sun had gone down behind the trees, and a little twilight wind was blowing through the world. She felt chilled and empty.
'Hollywood's a long way away.'
'A very long way.'
'Oh, Joe!'
Their eyes met. She gave a cry as his hand came out and gripped her arm.
'Jane, come with me! Jane, let's get married and go together. You know we belong to each other. I knew it the moment I saw you. We were made for each other. It's only once in a lifetime that you meet anyone you can feel that about. You never get a second chance. It was a miracle, our meeting. If we throw it away, there won't be another. Will you come, Jane?' ...
He laughed.
'So it's all over. I had a feeling all along that it couldn't be real. Just summer moonshine. Poor old Joe! And we thought we were going to get him off this season!'
'Joe, won't you try to make this not quite so difficult for me?'
He moved back to the wall. Cato, resplendent in his gambler's moustache, gazed at him with sightless eyes. He pointed.
'I never did finish those statues. I shall have to leave them to you.' (-- pgs. 263-265) |
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From Impossible Odds:
Yours, Plum
The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse
Hardcover
Edited by Frances Donaldson,
pal of Plummie's stepdaughter,
'Snorkles'
| Quote: | Remsenberg
Long Island
New York
To Denis Mackail
7 January 1960
I got quite a shock the other day when my New York publisher told me he was going to do a huge anthology of my stuff next September, to be called Eighty Years of Wodehouse. I suppose, being a mathematician, I had known that anyone born in 1881 has to be eighty in 1961, but having my octogenarianism hurled at me like that shook me a bit. I consoled myself with the thought that I can still touch my toes fifty times every morning without a suspicion of bending knees, which I'll bet not many octogenarians can.
(From Chapter 18, The End, at p. 245) |
Yes, and even better:
| Quote: | To Ethel Wodehouse
30 September 1973
My precious angel Bunny, whom I love so dear.
Another anniversary! Isn't it wonderful to think we have been married for 59 years and still love each other as much as ever except when I spill my tobacco on the floor, which I'll never do again.
It was a miracle finding one another. I know I could never have been happy with anyone else. What a lucky day for me when you agreed with me when I say "Let's get married!"
The only thing that makes me sad is your health. How I wish there was something I could do. What is so extraordinary is that you come to me in pain and not having slept, and you look just as beautiful as you did fifty-nine years ago. But how I wish that you could get a good sleep. I wish I could say all the things I would like to say, but really they can all be said in one sentence. I LOVE YOU.
Bless you
Your Plummie
(From Part III, 4 Ethel, p. 123) |
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With Fondest Regards
Hardcover
By Françoise Sagan
| Quote: | | ... It is true that gambling is a profoundly absorbing pastime. It is true that you can keep the person you love most waiting for two hours if you are involved in a game that affords any relish. It is true that you can almost completely forget your debts, and the constraints and restrictions that bind you, in pursuit of the croupier's shoe, only to come to an hour later and find your problems have increased tenfold. But what an hour! Your heart races, you lose all notion of time, forget the value of money, forget the tentacle-like shackles of society. It is true that as you play, money becomes once more what it never ceases to be, a game, chips, something that must be traded for something else and that in itself is meaningless. It is also true that real gamblers are rarely wicked, miserly or aggressive. They have a toleration for others shared by all those who are not afraid to lose what they have; those who consider that all material possessions and moral tenets have no lasting value. For them every setback is no more than a stroke of bad luck, and every victory a gift from heaven. (From Games of Chance, pgs. 21-22) |
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