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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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Smiling without good reason is demeaning.
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
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Hi Sandy, I won!
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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare."
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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
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Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
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Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans? If I had been treated like that I'd have used dynamite, not fireworks; no, I would have just walked out and kept right on going. But Angela was d..
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Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.
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Jake Wexler,
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Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
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Angela Wexler,
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The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
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strength
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All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
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Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends."
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Sandy fidgeted with his pen. "There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler... he's a bookie." No, he should not have told her. "A small-time operator, I'm sure, Mr. McSouthers," the judge replied coldly. "It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank o..
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She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
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Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker." That was a hard one. Chris had to say very slowly."
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Frenssh-fry
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You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.
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Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission. "Boom!" Jake Wexler replied."
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daughter of the servants." "Gee, you must have been lonely, Judge, having nobody to play with." "I played with Sam Westing--chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game." The judge thought of their last game: She had been so excited about taking his queen, only to have the master checkmate her in the next move. Sam Westing had deliberately sacrificed his queen and she ha..
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Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me-by one of you!
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HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Married again last year. Has one son: Douglas. SUN LIN HOO. Age: 28. Born in China. Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago. Gossip: James Hoo married her for her 100-year-old sauce. DOUGLAS HOO (called Doug). Age: 18. High-school track star. Is c..
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TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. She had made one million dollars in the stock market, lost it all, then made five million more.
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Read it out loud, dear," Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringer "Thank you," Angela said, wondering which one was the Barfspringer. The next gift was an egg poacher. The box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. "I sure hope Doctor Deere likes asparagus," someone remarked."
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Hello, Jake, I'm so glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission."
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I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don't have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that's what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.
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