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““occurred to him that he was sick of being Quirke, but knew there was no one else he could be. “I””

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“Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round.”

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“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish…

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“But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop”

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“There’s always somebody,” she said simply.”

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“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

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