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slight magic which fixes [the subject] in some way."

p 312 "Once I dreamed I was on a gorgeous ocean liner. All pale, gilded, encrusted with rococo - like a wedding cake. There was smoke in the air and people were drinking and gambling. I knew the ship was on fire and we were sinking slowly; they knew it, too, but they were very gay and dancing and singing and a little delirious. There was no hope. I was terribly elated. I could photograph anything I wanted."

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If one could awaken all the echoes of one's memory simultaneously, they would make a music, delightful or sad as the case may be, but logical and without dissonance. No matter how incoherent the existence, the human unity is not affected.

Beaudelaire

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Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

p 188 " Play the hunch. Play the hunch and get stung. In a little while you wake up with your mouth full of hunches. You can't order a cup of coffee without shutting your eyes and stabbing the menu. Play the hunch."

p 158 A smell of ironing came from the back of the house. She shut the door in between as carefully as if it was made of short-pie crust.

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Lydia Lopokova quoted in a book on John Maynard Keynes by Charles Hession. 1984

Two men - yes - I can see they have something to get hold of. But two women - that's impossible. You can't have two insides having an affair."

"Nijinsky ... his soul had holes in it. But when he danced the holes were healed."

A saying about adultery:

"a slice off a cut loaf is never missed"