"Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?"
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"It is finished, is never said of us"
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"My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did."
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"The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me."
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"And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
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"Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead."
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"You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark."
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"He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen."
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"If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?"
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"If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?"
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"I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
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"This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed."
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"It is said that gifts persuade even the gods."
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"As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'"
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"If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off."
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"I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them."
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"Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same."
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"I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it."
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"The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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