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― The Way We Live Now
― The Way We Live Now
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“Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.”
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“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― Miss Julie
― Miss Julie
“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!”
― Ethan Frome & Selected Stories
― Ethan Frome & Selected Stories
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