And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
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Christopher Brennan
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Patricia Highsmith
I know you have it in you, Guy, " Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol." "But do you see what it means?
I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.
I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.
One blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
