Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
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Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.
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Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.
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Be just before you are generous.
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People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings of flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
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He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands
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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives....
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Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
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There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
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The trap had a ghastly perfection
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Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.
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