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It took a while to tell but it hadn't taken all that long to live;
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He patted his breast pocket again, and of course it was still empty, cigarettes hadn't mysteriously appeared in it since he last checked. He walked over to the desk and shook a cigarette out of the pack and lit it, relaxing as the nicotine soothed the anxiety it had largely created. That was all smoking did for you, it poured oil on waters it had troubled in the first place, and what earthly good did it do him to know that? He'd known that ..
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I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.
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What does it all
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One begins a journey with an eye on one's destination. Somewhere along the way, one learns (if one's lucky) that it's the journey itself that's important. One buys a stamp album with the intention of filling it--but it is in moving toward this goal that satisfaction lies, not in attaining it.
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I see," I said, which is something I very often say when I don't."
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You think he just died of natural causes?" "This is New York. Murder's a natural cause in this city."
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