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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
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I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my…
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I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on…
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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
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We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get…
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness…
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The…
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other…
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
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When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the…
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to…
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In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there…
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I…
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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which…
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Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer…
— Quran
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