Liar's Poker
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The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention.
“All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.”
― The Water is Wide
― The Water is Wide
“Bernie could talk a Baptist into burning a Bible,”
― The Water is Wide
― The Water is Wide
“I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. It was very instructive. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.”
― The Water is Wide
― The Water is Wide
“the forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people.”
― The Water is Wide
― The Water is Wide
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