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“Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go. It reminded Larry of the time he had shaken ha...”
“A person can't change all at once.”
“A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.”
“She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.”
“Thank you, Men, for the railroads. Thank you, Men, for inventing the automobile and killing the red Indians who thought it might be nice to hold on to America for a while longer, since they were he...”
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the ...”
“Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.”
“When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.”
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”
“He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.”
“The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the...”
“Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? Ill give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and Ill show you a saint. Give me two and theyll fall in love. Give m...”
“Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.”
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
“Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride ...”
“. . . On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stations, fried clam stands, Dairy Treets, motels painted in feverish pastel colors, mini golf. Larry...”
“By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.”
