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"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
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"He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it."

"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
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