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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."

"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."

"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."

"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."

"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."

"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."
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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."

"What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?"
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