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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - [Intelligence] In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. - [Love] What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated. - Henderson the Rain King [Books (First Lines)] If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. - Herzog [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the Thirties was an immediate hit. - Humboldt's Gift [Books (First Lines)] Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers. - Mr. Sammler's Planet (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] I am an American, Chicago born--Chicago, that somber city--and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. - The Adventures of Augie March [Books (First Lines)] On some nights New York is as hot as Bangkok. - The Victim [Books (First Lines)]
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