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“I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.”
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“Aunt Octavia was sitting in the front parlor, her hands working a pair of knitting needles like she meant to kill the sweater instead of knit it.”
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“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts ... ”
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“His tail ached with wagging, and even his hips waggled as he moved. But under cover of these virtues he was watchful for his benefit, watchful for human weakness, affected, a ready liar, disobedient, boastful, a sucker-up ...”
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“To be sure, the ego is not always odious. Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.”
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“She was her own currency ...”
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“No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.”
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“She was one of those small tight-lipped neurotics who sometimes turn to religion and now and then to crime.”