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“Beware the autumn people”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.”
― The Vet's Daughter
― The Vet's Daughter
“[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone.”
― The Vet's Daughter
― The Vet's Daughter
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
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