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"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."

"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."

"It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance."

"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."

"Don't change your mind just because people are offended, change your mind if you're wrong."

"Your thoughts are transparent."

"Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them. Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty."
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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
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