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“A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.”
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“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”
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“The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.”
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“... death, when it comes, takes more than just the life of him whose forehead it touches.”
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“Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.”
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“Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud — well down — and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like — like Rasputin.”
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“I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.”
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“Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.”