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"He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!"

"I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you."

"One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ['Amour en friche']"

"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all."

"It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin."

"Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow."

"You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
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