“His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.”
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Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.”
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“I have achieved nothing, nothing. I am what I always was, alone as always, locked in the same old glass prison of myself.”
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“all right we are two nations”
― The Big Money
― The Big Money
“The trembling increased, a moan of grief was heard, nothing articulate - as a bird in the night sometimes laments alone.”
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“As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart...”
― A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
― A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
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