""You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered."
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"Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered."
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice."
"Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said."
"I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
"I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes."
"'He's got a can up there,' Richard said."
"When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time."
"And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly."
"I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it."
"It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it."
"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
"No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator."
"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."
"Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?"
"As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do."
"And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."
"Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it."
"He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope."
"Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!"