That’s right, Italy. Nitty-gritty Italy, land of the witty ditty and the itty-bitty titty – yet one more place I’ve never been to (p. Auster).

The air was warm and felt like a kiss as we stepped off the plane (A. Wesker).

«Say yes. If you don’t I’ll break into tears, I’ll sob. I’ll moan. I’ll growl» (Th. Smith).

I contracted pneumonia, in that day a killing disease. I went down and down until the wing tips of the angels brushed my eyes (J. Steinbeck).

Up came the file and down sat the editor, with Mr. Pickwick at his side (Ch. Dickens).

Gentleness in passion! What could have been more seductive to the scared, starved heart of that girl? (J. Conrad).

She trembled, and he listened, vaguely anxious (D. H. Lawrence).

A breeze blew curtains in and out like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling (Sc. Fitzgerald).

She was hopefully, sadly, vaguely, madly longing for something better (Th. Dreiser).

Her voice is full of money (Sc. Fitzgerald).

The dense wet heat that hung over the face of land, like a blanket, prevented all hope of sleep in the first instance (R. Kipling).

The young lady who burst into tears has been put together again (Ch.Dickens).

Merit meant nothing. Talent meant nothing. Work meant nothing. The Mafia Godfather gave you your profession as a gift (M. Puzo).

She was still fat; the destroyer of her figure sat at the head of the table (A. Bennett).

I loved the noise, the smell, the movement, the quick angers, the gesticulations, the extravagance of ground-level French racing (D. Francis).

His quiet, reluctant movements, as if he never really wanted to do anything; his long flat-stepping stride; the permanent challenge in his high cheek-bones, the Indian glint in his eyes, and his peculiar stare, watchful and yet unseeing, made him unpopular with the women servants (D. H. Lawrence).

If everyone at twenty realized that half of his life was to be lived after forty… (E. Waugh).

«I’m not afraid to die», I said. «I’m not afraid to live. I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to succeed. I’m not afraid to fall in love. I’m not afraid to be alone. I’m just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes» (K. Friedman).

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time (A. Lincoln).

She unchained, unbolted, and unlocked the door (A. Bennett).

People here lie down on the floor and scream and kick when you are the least bit slow about taking money from them (O’Henry).

Wish I was young enough to wear that kind of thing. Older I get the more I like the colour (E. Waugh).

First the front, then the back, then the sides, then the superscription, then the seal, were objects of Newman’s admiration (Ch. Dickens).

Of the various kinds of darkness I shall not speak (J. Banville).

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She gave a long gasp, it was not exactly a screem, it reminded me oddly of a piece of silk torn in two (S. Maugham).

«But he was no fool», Gaze went on. «He knew his work from A to Z» (S. Maugham).

He was the kind of breezy, hearty cove whom you’d expect to be as keen as mustard on having kids (S. Maugham).

«A glass of water be damned», he said. «What she wants is a good long peg of brandy» (S. Maugham).