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In the centre of the room not three yards away from them stood the figure of a man with his head bent over on to his shoulder, so that the face was not visible. Then he took his head in both his hands and raised it like a weight, and looked
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― True Grit
― True Grit
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― The Stories of John Cheever
― The Stories of John Cheever
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― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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― The Swimmer
― The Swimmer
“He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
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