Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man (1975)

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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

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Of course, as Henry James says, the house of fiction has many windows. Your trouble is you seem to have stood in front of most of them.

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'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

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Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

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'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'

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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'

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'Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.'

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