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“She usually got a head start on the day before it knew she was in a race with it.”
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“Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.”
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“Nora robbed herself for everyone; incapable of giving herself warning, she was continually turning about to find herself diminished. Wandering people the world over found her profitable in that she could be sold for a price forever, for she carried her betrayal money in her own pocket.”
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“Time is the measure of that which changes ...”
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“Fictional characters, he had lately found, were generally more interesting dinner companions than flesh-and-blood ones.”
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“ Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ... ”
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“After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.”
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“A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.”