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“If you don’t care a damn about anything, it is easy to be tolerant,” Seth had once said to his friend young Doc Swain. “Neither side of any picture disturbs you, which enables you to see both sides clearly and sensibly.”

"He carried Allison to the head of the stairs, and when he heard the voice speaking below, he felt as if he were truly living a nightmare."😮

"Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they’re bums and kidnapers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track."

"A Greek?” demanded Peyton Place incredulously. “For God’s sake, isn’t it enough that we’ve got a whole colony of Polacks and Canucks working in the mills without letting the Greeks in?”🙄

"Selena was wise with the wisdom learned of poverty and wretchedness. At thirteen, she saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death."