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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
“Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“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
“He blew his nose resoundingly. "B natural," said he, "my cold drops more than a full tone every hour. Obviously I am dying.”
― Leaven of Malice
― Leaven of Malice
“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
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