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“The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves”
― Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon
― Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon
“I agree with the late William Cobbett about picking a wife. See that she chews her food well and sets her foot down firmly on the ground when she walks, and you're all right. Selina Goby was all right in both these respects, which was one reason for marrying her. I had another reason, likewise, entirely of my own discovering. Selina, being a single woman, made me pay so much a week for her board and services. Selina, being my wife, couldn't charge for her board, and would have to give me her services for nothing. That was the point of view I looked at it from. Economy - with a dash of love.”
― The Moonstone
― The Moonstone
“Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.”
― The Manticore
― The Manticore
“No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?”
― World of Wonders
― World of Wonders
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