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"The mark of a second-rate—no, make that third-rate—mind, was this tendency to pontificate."

"He was so miserable, so full of anger and fear and envy that the whole room stank of it. His body had been stiffened and deformed by it; the very muscles of his face were saturated with his rage and fear.

He was a skin bag of poison."

"...children played in the garden between the houses as she had done, screaming and laughing the way children always did. ...the noise seemed to pierce her head with little needles."