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“Better to be dirty than dead.”
“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
“They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.”
“Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after ...”
“Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. ...”
“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isnt man or God. Its something...in the brain.”
“I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all...”
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?”
“Thinking, Garraty thought. Thats the days business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesnt matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, youre alone.”
