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“You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.”
“Her mouth was soft and moist, and she came to me like a dachshund jumping into your lap.”
“Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.”
“Harry, she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. You found the way, didnt you? Whats so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do.”
“There was no way to kiss her like a good boy. You could start out that way, but you always ended up on the other side of the tracks. If you hated her, it didnt make any difference; it worked just t...”
“I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and thered be an end to her ...”
“And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.Well, I ...”
