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Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time.

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And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze d...more

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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the...more

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The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - ...more

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He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. They were fierce and they had no price. They never ga...more