1950s issue of Classics Illustrated’s adaptation of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

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BORIS PASTERNAK Doctor Zhivago

“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”

Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago

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Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein

After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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Crabby old greeting card lady says A day without griping is like a day without talking at all.

She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.

William McIlvanney, LAIDLAW

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Retro book cover for Margaret Atwood’s novel THE BLIND ASSASSIN Features an illustration of a platinum blonde woman in a red dress, leaning against an ornate railing, with purple background. Cover reads MARGARET ATWOOD THE BLIND ASSASSIN BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE AND THE TESTAMENTS

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.”

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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