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  1. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    For here it was now, as clear as it had ever been. And, worst of all, he was aware of an impulse to tell Bruno everything, the stranger on the train who would listen, commiserate, and forget. The idea of telling Bruno began to comfort him. Bruno was not the ordinary stranger on the train by any means. He was cruel and corrupt enough himself to appreciate a story like that of his first love.
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  2. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    The law was not society, it began. Society was people like himself and Owen and Brillhart, who hadn't the right to take the life of another member of society. And yet the law did. "And yet the law is supposed to be the will of society at least. It isn't even that. Or maybe it is collectively," he added, aware that as always he was doubling back before he come to a point, making things as complex as possible in trying to make them certain.
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  3. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so far -- and it takes just the least little thing to push them over the brink. Anybody. Even your grandmother. I know.
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  4. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    She's everything that should be loathed," he went on, staring in front of him. "Sometimes I think I hate everything in the world. No decency, no conscience. She's what people mean when they say America never grows up, America rewards the corrupt. She's the type who goes to the bad movies, acts in them, reads the love-story magazines, lives in a bungalow, and whips her husband into earning more money this year so they can buy on the installment plan next year, breaks up her neighbor's marriage-
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  5. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    Society's law was lax compared to the law of conscience
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  6. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative.
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  7. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.
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  8. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    The taste of Scotch, though Guy didn't much care for it, was pleasant because it reminded him of Anne. She drank Scotch, when she drank. It was like her, golden, full of light, made with careful art.
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  9. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    Death was only one more adventure untried.
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  10. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp."
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  11. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?
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  12. Patricia Highsmith _ Strangers on a Train

    People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.
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