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“it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no…

— Saul Bellow

“he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.”

— Eleanor Catton

“He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.”

— Davis Bunn

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“It was easy, and he knew, he was different somehow: in his mind, invincible.”

— John Darryl Winston

“He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.”

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“I began noticing that he only tensed up around certain people. Curiously, they were the same people I’d always had an off feeling about…the…

— Sloane Kennedy

“... he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.”

— Henry James

“He really did posses the ability to be extremely annoying when he set his mind to it.”

— Jen Turano

“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.”

— G.K. Chesterton