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John C. Hawkes

"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

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"Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now."

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"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."

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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."

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