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“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.”
― The Bonfire of the Vanities
― The Bonfire of the Vanities
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