In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

Ross Macdonald
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  1. It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.

  2. The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

  3. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

  4. I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

  5. Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

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