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Julia O'Faolain
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“... the scope of his crimes is biblical ...”
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“Ah, the heart was the body's fool.”
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“There is nothing which prevents feeling like shamming it. Pretence dries up the heart.”
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“Happiness ... is shucking off the body. I have known it. I've been outside mine. My freed soul looked down at this body which is blood-nourished like a tick in a dog's ear. There was nothing it wanted less than to return to it. That is why it did.”
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“Losers have their own truth.”
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“Rain fell in ropes and wind shuttled through them, webbing the city in its ephemeral weave.”
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“Arguing with Owen with like fencing with a bag of wool.”
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“... talking to Maurizio was like playing a slot machine. ... Suddenly, unpredictably, he would spew out words.”
Julia O'Faolain, Irish writer
(1932)