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"Always remember that," he told Cully.
"Everything you do in life use percentage as your god."

"I extinguished my grief and my reason and put my sins forward as my shield.
I would sin, beware and live forever."

"Only those we most love can cause our death, and only of them we must beware.
Our enemies can never harm us.
And at the core of my brother's virtue was that he feared neither his enemies nor those he loved.
So much the worst for him.
Virtue is its own reward and fools are they who die."

"That's when Osano's luck turned bad, though he could still have bailed out if it hadn't been for his ego."

"He finished the essay bytes congratulating the rulers of America for having the ingenuity to give their lower classes a license to steal and kill so that they would not become political revolutionists."

"Never treat a woman too good.
Women stick with drunks, gamblers, whoremasters and even beater-uppers.
They can't stand a sweet, good guy. Do you know why?
They get bored.
They don't want to be happy. It's boring."

"Women will fuck anybody, anytime, anyplace, except that they're afraid of talk."

"Listen, kid," he said, "love is like the little red toy wagon you get for Christmas or your sixth birthday.
It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone.
But sooner or later the wheels come off.
Then you leave it in a corner and forget it.
Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster."

Once as an adolescent, beset with guilt and feelings of unworthiness, hopelessly at odds with the world, I stumbled across the Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov. That book changed my life. It gave me strength. It made me see the vulnerable beauty of all people no matter how despicable they might outwardly seem. And I always remembered the day I finally gave up the book, took it back to the asylum library and ..

"I read novels. Dumas and Dickens and Sabatini, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and later on Joyce and Kafka and Dostoevsky."