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Mankind," Henry found himself saying, "is a very large business."
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Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed to him closer to resolved happiness than he had ever imagined possible.
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He turned and looked at Henry. "Did you always know that you would write all these books?" "I know the next sentence," Henry said, "and often the next story and I take notes for novels."
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Would a promise not be the same?" "If you can promise, then you can easily do this," he said." --
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We live in a strange time,' Electra said. 'A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don't. Their power is waning. Soon, it will be a different world. It will be ruled by the light of day. Soon it will be a world barely worth inhabiting. You should feel lucky that you were touched by the old world, that in that house it brushed you with its wings.
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If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I was brought up in a house where there was a great deal of silence.
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I was the worst barman who ever lived. My pints of Guinness were unholy.
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