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He exuded ambiguities she decided, that was his fascination. His mouth spoke; his eyes said something other: his smile belied everything... He played with the language of the Circle of Days like a child with an arsenal of twigs... His music said otherwise it seemed to echo through time out of a past as old as the stones on the hill. He lied with every note he played. Or in his music he finally told the truth. — Patricia A. McKillip The Bards of...

He has tried to end his life twice. Once Archie brought him back. Now I have done the same. We have interfered in what doesn't concern us. He belongs to himself and is at his own disposal. Or else what are we? Richard Crawford, holding his brother's wrist gently and lowering it, turned to him. 'We are,' he said, 'at least no less than the animals. We are members of a race, and of a kingdom, and of a family. The world has borrowed his strength often enough: can we not lend him ours when he needs it?' — Dorothy Dunnett Checkmate

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice...

{...} she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless...

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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