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I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

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The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

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This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

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He's exactly what she wants. He's the last thing she needs.

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And death?
I don't fear death.
I dread the absence of it.

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If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

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Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

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It never fails to astonish me, Carol said. The tenacity of love.

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I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

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Time is a vastness, he said finally. We tend to underestimate it.

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There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

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Must be a full moon, she said. Lawrence is turning into an asshole.

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You think Wexler is lying?
I think he's fallible, Byron had replied.

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We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

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I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?

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The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.

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Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn't sure he trusted it.

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I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

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Truth is a perilous commodity, Julian admitted, but so is ignorance, Adam—more so.

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You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

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There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.

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One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

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Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

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Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

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To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?

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His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.

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