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"...her face was stiff and schooled and childish and histrionic. It was like watching a small girl play Lady Macbeth. You wanted to shield her from the knowledge that these things were really true" (202).

"...like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind--until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in" (73).

"Conventions were far more rooted than morality: he had himself found that it was easier to allow oneself to be murdered than to break up a social gathering" (71).