115 Quotes by Alice McDermott
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It’s sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.
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The owner’s wife gave me a container of chicken soup and a quart of rice pudding to take home. She was a broad, solid woman with thick arms and legs. She swiped vigorously at the stain on my coat with a wad of dampened paper towel, and I remembered Pegeen then: There’s always someone nice.
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There was tremendous affection in Billy’s eyes, or at least they held a tremendous offer of affection, a tremendous willingness to find whomever he was talking to bright and witty and better than most.
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There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can’t have one without the other...
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It had been raining, that gray, unpoetic rain of midwinter in a dreary suburb.
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For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain – this is how we saw the world – there would never again be loneliness in life.
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She liked the salty taste of contradiction on her tongue.
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