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“He smelled submission in Quoyle, guessed he was butter of fair spreading consistency.”
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“Something there is that doesn't love a fence.”
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“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?”
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“I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake — worse, a crime. It was my awakening to one of the most terrible facts of life — that justice and judgment lie often a world apart.”
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“... the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.”
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“... she fingered the edge of his mother's sorrow like a tailor feeling the quality of a rival's well-made suit. Was it anything like the pain she had felt ... ?”
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“Good manners spring from just one thing — kind impulses.”
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“Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.”