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Hemingway in Cuba
Norman Lewis
'I met Ian Fleming at Cape's annual party. Jonathan Cape made no secret of disliking Fleming, had read only the first chapter of Casino Royale and nothing whatever of his subsequent books.'
Shanghai Express
Germaine Greer
'The next dawn broke over an immense stony plain where billions of blue, pink and white plastic bags bobbed like so many tethered pearly balloons.'
Golden Kids Comeback
Timothy Garton Ash
'Hips. Some never have them. Most have them but lose them. A few have them and keep them.'
Rich Rich Rich
Richard Rayner
’I was sweating, I was faint. The yellow on the walls was brilliant and burning.‘
The Trouble with Money
Ian Hamilton
‘Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two packets of Benson and Hedges?’
Ten Money Notes
Kevin Jackson
‘Despite money's protean nature, however, a lot of people persist in believing that it should stay much the same and are dismayed when it doesn't.’
The Psychology of Money
James Buchan
’In my inferno of solitude, I thought there must be some reason why I was doing what I was doing.‘
Bad Land
Jonathan Raban
‘What the bottom line always comes to is the old two a.m. cry: We can’t go on living like this.’
My Low Korean Master
Chang-rae Lee
’I wondered, too, whether he was suffering inside, whether he sometimes cried, as I did, for reasons unknown.‘
Fat
Helen Epstein
‘Fat Aids has become so common in Uganda, he told us, that if you say you are working on HIV people think you are a thief.’
Playing the Game: The City
David Kynaston
‘It is not a question of how he came to grief, ‘but did he play the game?’’
