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Menudo

Raymond Carver

‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’

Glitches

John Gregory Dunne

‘I prefer not to speculate about what might have happened if I had not taken the ECG.’

The Dreadful Mucamas

Lydia Davis

‘We do not believe they are sincerely trying to please us.’

Editing Vidia

Diana Athill

‘I thought so highly of Vidia’s writing and felt his presence on our list to be so important that I simply could not allow myself not to like him.’

At Yankee Stadium

Don DeLillo

‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’

A Coup

Bruce Chatwin

‘You do not understand. In this country one understands nothing.’

The Zoo in Basel

John Berger

‘To create is to let take over something which did not exist before and is therefore new.’

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘It sounded like the birth of tragedy.’