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the back of her hand. "Clear,"
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Clark disliked the general state of unshavenness, partly for aesthetic reasons and partly because he was a believer in the broken-windows theory of urban-crime management, the way the appearance of dereliction can pave the way for more serious crimes.
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All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.' 'You'd be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion.
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She'd pressed her forehead to the window and saw clusters and pinpoints of light in the darkness, scattered constellations linked by roads or alone. The beauty of it, the loneliness, the thought of all those people living out their lives, each porch light marking another house, another family.
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he was just another dead man on another road, answerless, the bearer of another unfathomable story about walking out of one world and into another.
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Or maybe just an amphetamine freak? Clark's thoughts wandered to a particularly exciting week in Toronto, eighteen or nineteen years old, when he and Arthur had accepted some pills from a new friend at a dance club and stayed up for seventy-two hours straight.
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They resumed their cautious progress
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How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place,
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RAYMONDE: What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you've lost.
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Hell is other actors," Kirsten said. "Also ex-boyfriends."
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Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true?
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Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
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She tried to keep this opinion to herself and occasionally succeeded.
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Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.
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If there's pleasure in action, there's peace in stillness.
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What is time travel if not a security problem?
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I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom.
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Maybe you're right. Turns out reality is more important than we thought," Dion said.
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