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  1. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game."
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  2. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
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  3. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.
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  4. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?
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  5. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.
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  6. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    She can't go in there," he says firmly. "It isn't appropriate." "See this, sweetness?" Bina has fished out her badge. "I'm like a cash gift. I'm always appropriate.
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  7. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    But there is no Messiah of Sitka. Landsman has no home, no future, no fate but Bina. The land that he and she were promised was bounded only by the fringes of their wedding canopy, by the dog-eared corners of their cards of membership in an international fraternity whose members carry their patrimony in a tote bag, their world on the tip of the tongue.
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  8. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.
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  9. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life.
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  10. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    I have a boyfriend now. A real one. We're totally dating, it's very strange.
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  11. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
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  12. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    He checks with the mandolin man on the roof; there is always a man on the roof with a semiautomatic mandolin.
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