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Arthur had discovered that horses make bad sailors.
“Your father’s not allowed to have fun. He has to sit in boring meetings all day.” “Poor Daddy,”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“A VERY GOOD LIFE LIVED INDEED, ESMERELDA. “Thank you,” said Granny. “I did my best.”
― The Shepherd's Crown
― The Shepherd's Crown
“In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?”
― Desolation Island
― Desolation Island
“I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“I certainly shall, sir. Anything for a quiet life is my motto.’ ‘And yet you were in a privateer.’ ‘Yes, sir. I was running away from a young woman: the same as when I left the Charleston horse-leech.”
― The Wine-Dark Sea
― The Wine-Dark Sea
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