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“What are you going to do, Parker?” she asked, and the quaver of fear had finally reached her voice. “I'm going to drink his blood,” he said. “I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs to raise a leg at. I'm
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“He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.”
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“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
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“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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