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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

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Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a littl...more

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the gre...more

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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

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He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in Franc...more

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I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of...more

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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

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I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a ca...more