The Searcher
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Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.
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A freebie, even a little one, does that to poor people; it loosens them.
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It’s the sweet warm wave of astonishment that, just for once and out of the blue, the world is feeling generous to you today.
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Her belief is built purely out of hope, piled on top of nothing, solid as smoke.
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His private opinion about a lot of the baby thugs and delinquents he encountered on the job was that what they really yearned after, whether they knew it or not, was a rifle and a horse and a herd of cattle to drive through dangerous terrain.
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he remembers they’re no longer on those terms. It catches him with a twist of loneliness. He liked Mart.