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> [“Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/loneliness-came-over-him-like-an-avalanche-of-snow-he-was-alone-where/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

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## More by William Lindsay Gresham

> [“Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/loneliness-came-over-him-like-an-avalanche-of-snow-he-was-alone-where/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

> [“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/the-speech-fascinated-him-his-ear-caught-the-rhythm-of-it-and-he/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

> [“Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/nothing-matters-in-this-goddamned-lunatic-asylum-of-a-world-but-dough/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

> [“Oh, Christ, why do you have to grow up into a life like this one? Why do you ever have to want women, want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/oh-christ-why-do-you-have-to-grow-up-into-a-life-like-this-one-why-do/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

> [“What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/what-sort-of-god-would-put-us-here-in-this-goddamned-stinking/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

> [“How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike. And some, the great majority, stumbled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lindsay-gresham/how-helpless-they-all-looked-in-the-ugliness-of-sleep-a-third-of-life/)

[William Lindsay Gresham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lindsay-gresham/)

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