Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
To die hating them, that was freedom.
The more intelligent, the less sane
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.