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You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

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This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardl...more

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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog d...more

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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand time...more

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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nob...more

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He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full...more

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When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything e...more

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Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but...more

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

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That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in...more