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What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
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I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.
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Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
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They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.
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...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-
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What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?
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At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?
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I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.
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One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.
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