miscellaneous quotes Flashcards

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evelyn war in preface to 1959 edition

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much of this book therefore is a panegyric preached over an empty coffin

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ryder’s description of training cap in scotland in preface

here the

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here the tram lines ended
here the close, homogeneous territory of housing estates and cinemas ended and the hinterland began.
liminal space, atavism

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waugh describes who as the heirs to the future in the prologue

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people in the lunatic asylum “mad men”

“the undisputed heirs-at-law of a century of progress”

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and since Sebastian counted among the intruders

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his own conscience and all claims of human affection, his days in Arcadia were numbered

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5
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I think it’s

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Beautiful Cordelia said with tears in her eyes

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Bridey: Is it Good Art?

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Charles: ‘probably in eighty years it will be greatly admired

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7
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Which series is the twitch upon the thread quote from

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Father brown

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8
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And a phrase came back to me from

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Childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom

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Where does the temple being rent from top to bottom come from

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Book of Matthew temple splits Christianity breaks away from Judaism

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Garnett on julia

Her repentance is the

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Critical event spurring the books other erring souls to reform

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The poor have always been

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The favourites of god and his saints

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