“ Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think — I think it might be us! ”
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“ He found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark hole of his open mouth. ”
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“ Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit. ”
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“ The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming. ”
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“ Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ”
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“ Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. ”
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“ We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. ”
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“ One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. ”
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“ Oh Doris Lessing, my dear — your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love — any more than that other Anna's fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It's all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing and male mythologizing… ”
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“ A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate, final argument. ”
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