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a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.
It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.
When the evidence leads to only one possible conclusion, the truth of it, no matter how unlikely, cannot be ignored.
It is human nature to cling onto one’s hopes, no matter how far-fetched they may be.
Do we not learn in the church that evil has a physical presence, that we may feel it like a cold winter or a coming storm? “Deliver us from evil!” We say it every night. And now it is here. Maybe you invited it. Maybe it was coming anyway.
they were not gentlemen. They were Americans. They paid not the slightest attention to the rules of sportsmanship and civility to which I had always deferred.
‘You are a devil!’ ‘No. I am a criminal. The two are not at all the same . . .
