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“[On New York City:] It's a million little islands and each has a heartbeat.”
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“Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.”
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“Everyone knew fear. It was the reaction that made the difference. Some people hated fear and avoided the experience. Some people endured it as a necessity. And some people became addicted to the rush.”
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“'Heirloom' is knitting code for 'This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief.'”
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“Curious, isn't it, that 'talking with the right people' means something so very different from 'talking with the right person'?”
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“The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.”
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“... diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.”
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“'You are like me!' The deepest flattery one creature pays its fellow, the cry which is uttered when another enters 'our country.'”








