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- It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed…
- I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew…
- Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no…
- I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight,…
- I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then…
- All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
- After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell…
- As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then…
- I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation,…
- Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant…
- It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can…
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