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Dr Breit] "It's irrational, but so's the human species."
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That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up."
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Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.
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Mim has hung up. She has a life to get on with.
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Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.
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Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.
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Late in the game as it is, you keep trying.
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Mr Shimada] "Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct."
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Things change," says Mr Shimada. "Is world's sad secret."
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Harry to Janice, about the financial situation] "...You're in real trouble."
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Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
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Weeds don't know they're weeds.
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re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.
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This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same."
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Hard to believe God is always listening, never gets bored.
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There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
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Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.
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re the human heart] That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat.
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God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.
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But the fast lane too gets to be a rut.
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There's more to being a human being than having your own way.
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This is the last night when he is nowhere. Tomorrow, life will find him again.
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He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?
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The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.
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Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.
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Nelson, re. Annabelle] ..."she wants what everybody wants. She wants love."
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His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.
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These dysfunctionals make him aware of how functional he is.
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Mim to Nelson] "Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid."
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they were nobodies in the county, they would leave nothing behind but their headstones.
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Did Nelson ever tell you the story," Pru asks Annabelle, "how he lost the agency up his nose?"
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