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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

"A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!"

"If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom."
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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."

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

"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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