"'Ha! No--[Wotton is] still the fucking same bitter man. Still slicing everything up with your bloody epigrams.'

'I wouldn't do it, Baz, if life weren't a change meeting upon an operating table between a sadistic surgeon and a patient with Munchausen's.'"

--"Dorian" by Will Self, p. 133

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