“Dreadful as it was, I count it a mercy that the climax was reached so quickly.... It was upon us before we realized it. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."
Dr. Petrie’s internal monologue in Sax Rohmer The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
“He uttered my name as if a fire had broken out.”
Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the Seven Bodies
"it must be remembered, that life consists not in a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of our daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures…" Samuel Johnson, quoted in D.J. Enright’s introduction to Johnson's The History of Rasselas
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