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"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal."
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"O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!"
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"When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it."
"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase."
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