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You think Wexler is lying?""I think he's fallible," Byron had replied.
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There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.
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Must be a full moon," she said."Lawrence is turning into an asshole."
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Time is a vastness," he said finally. "We tend to underestimate it."
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I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.
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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.
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Maybe you were better off not knowing.""Ignorance is not bliss."
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That worries me. One death is attrition; two would look like incompetence--on someone's part.
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The planet doesn't hate you," Theo had once said. "But its intimacies are fatal."
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Perfect aristocratic tone, Degrandpre thought: insult and menace in a single phrase.
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To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
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Ecstasy hates company.
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One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.
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Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
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And death?I dread the absence of it.
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I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.
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I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?
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There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.
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When does loyalty become martyrdom?
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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
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This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
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Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
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The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.
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He's exactly what she wants. He's the last thing she needs.
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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
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I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.
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An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
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His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.
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It never fails to astonish me," Carol said. "The tenacity of love."
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We'll do what life always does--defy expectations.
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There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
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Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn't sure he trusted it.
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What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
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Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
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The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.
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You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
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Truth is a perilous commodity," Julian admitted, "but so is ignorance, Adam--more so."
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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
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I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.
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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes--you'll see.
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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?
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Life shites on hope.
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