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101 " If one were as rich as those people! They pass so close to us; they see us, and we see them; but the distance between is infinity. They don’t belong to the same world as we poor wretches. They see everything in a different light; they have powers which would seem supernatural if we were suddenly endowed with them. "
― George Gissing , New Grub Street
102 " Isn’t it a most ridiculous thing that married people who both wish to separate can’t do so and be quite free again? "
103 " Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write about the really important things of life? "
104 " You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame. "
105 " And there followed the antiphony of ardour that finds its first utterance — a subdued music, often interrupted, ever returning upon the same rich note. "
106 " All the pedantry of her daily toil slipped away like a cumbrous garment; she was clad only in her womanhood. Once "
107 " Hear-break is a very old-fashioned disorder, associated with poverty of the brain. "
― George Gissing , The Odd Women