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“Stark? Doc doesn’t like phones. He thinks they’re too disembodied.” “I’d love to be disembodied. All my problems solved at once.” “Ghosts don’t smoke or get to drink Jack Daniel’s.” “Forget it, then. I’ll live forever.”
“Lots of people do," said Cobbler, "but don’t delude yourself. You’re not the suicidal type."
"Why not?"
"You’re too gabby. People who talk a lot about their troubles never commit suicide; talk’s the greatest safety-valve there is.”
― Leaven of Malice
"Why not?"
"You’re too gabby. People who talk a lot about their troubles never commit suicide; talk’s the greatest safety-valve there is.”
― Leaven of Malice
“The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“It struck him that if he could have sex with this girl for one second he could face his parents confidently, and that if he could keep on having sex with this girl once every minute for as long as his parents were in town he could survive their entire visit.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“The wind had teeth today, it bit right through his calfskin jacket. It was a wind unchecked by any serious topography between the Arctic and St. Jude.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“What would you do if you were me?" said Solly.
"What would I do in your place?"
"No, no; you’d do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?”
― Leaven of Malice
"What would I do in your place?"
"No, no; you’d do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?”
― Leaven of Malice
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