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The Ghost Road (1995)
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Even the living were only ghosts in the making.
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First-person narrators can't die, so long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.
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Another person's life, observed from outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
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We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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May 8, 1943
(age 81)
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