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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilization so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked. There was nothing to be said.

The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.

I did not tell her how, when Mother was alive, I felt like the minor character tossed between the only two protagonists who truly mattered...

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

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How could have you taken what your wife did for you for granted, without ever once making her seaweed soup? One day, you wife came back from town and said, "You know that butcher you like in the market? I was passing by today and his wife kept calling me...to share some seaweed soup...her husband had made her the soup...It wasn't particularly tasty. But for the first time, I was envious of the butcher's wife.

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"...those who watched the SNL skit were more than three times as likely to say they'd push the man off the bridge."

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Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me... I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

While it was possible that his team of rivals would devour one another, Lincoln determined that "he must risk the dangers of faction to overcome the dangers of rebellion."

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That was a wild ride!