A Bottle in the Smoke

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People/Characters

Julian Ramsay; Raphael Hunter; Anne Starling

First words

Killing time. One spends more and more time doing it, I find.

Quotations

I had not begun to question the whole morality of biography, its intrusiveness, its know-all claims, its essential vulgarity.

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This was the beginning of a simple, positive desire to record experience in prose as a homage to life itself, born from the certainty that I myself, before I was forgotten, would pass into forgetting, and owed it to experien... (show all)ce, trivial or important, sad or joyful, to se down something of what I had felt.i

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She yawned and asked snappishly, "Where in hell have you been?"