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Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere
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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
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And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.
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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
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All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
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We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...
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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
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We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.
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It was not until the next evening that he discovered he had a page from Leviticus stuck to his back.
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Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?
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He [Quoyle] did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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Which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.
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Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.
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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
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Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
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For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.
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Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering... In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.
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The old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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August 22, 1935
(age 88)
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