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"Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board."
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"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
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"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."
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"Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills."
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"I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains."
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"A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?"
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"It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan."
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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
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"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
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"There was nothing - and nothing - and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone."
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"I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that."
Connection

"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."
Knowledge

"She was seriously in love, but she never made demands."
Relationship

"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."
Peace

"I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy."
Happiness

"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."
Emotion

"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity."
Belief

"But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me."
Communication

"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me."
Reality

"The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered."
Humor
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