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“A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.”

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“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”

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“Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.”

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“Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.”

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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

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