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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior.” “Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.”

51. “Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior.” “Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”

52. “Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”

53. “I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Love is so urgent as all that, eh?”

54. “Love is so urgent as all that, eh?”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning.”

55. “She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Sometimes he looked like an angry mouse, sometimes wise; on this day, as he sat waiting for Frances to arrive, he resembled a mouse who wished he were another mouse.”

56. “Sometimes he looked like an angry mouse, sometimes wise; on this day, as he sat waiting for Frances to arrive, he resembled a mouse who wished he were another mouse.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “There was a shallowness to his gaze which presented him as one unburdened by intelligence.”

57. “There was a shallowness to his gaze which presented him as one unburdened by intelligence.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “The story of Reginald Watts was a luckless one dealing in every manner of failure and catastrophe, though he spoke of this without bitterness or regret, and in fact seemed to find humor in his numberless missteps: ‘I’ve failed at straight business, I’ve failed at criminal enterprise, I’ve failed at love, I’ve failed at friendship. You name it, I’ve failed at it. Go ahead and name something. Anything at all.”

58. “The story of Reginald Watts was a luckless one dealing in every manner of failure and catastrophe, though he spoke of this without bitterness or regret, and in fact seemed to find humor in his numberless missteps: ‘I’ve failed at straight business, I’ve failed at criminal enterprise, I’ve failed at love, I’ve failed at friendship. You name it, I’ve failed at it. Go ahead and name something. Anything at all.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Frances said, “I ran from one brightly burning disaster to the next, pal. That’s the way I was. Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”

59. “Frances said, “I ran from one brightly burning disaster to the next, pal. That’s the way I was. Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Why do this? When you could, as an alternative, not?”

60. “Why do this? When you could, as an alternative, not?”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Bob sometimes had the sense there was a well inside him, a long, bricked column of cold air with still water at the bottom.”

61. “Bob sometimes had the sense there was a well inside him, a long, bricked column of cold air with still water at the bottom.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “This bad feeling joined forces with his other bad feelings and became one big bad feeling.”

62. “This bad feeling joined forces with his other bad feelings and became one big bad feeling.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Days flattened fact, was the merciful truth of the matter. A bell was struck and it sang by the blow performed against it but the noise of the violence moved away and away and the bell soon was cold and mute, intact.”

63. “Days flattened fact, was the merciful truth of the matter. A bell was struck and it sang by the blow performed against it but the noise of the violence moved away and away and the bell soon was cold and mute, intact.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “And while the partial truth is that I don’t believe, the fuller truth is that I believe just enough that I’m uncomfortable talking about my not believing.”

64. “And while the partial truth is that I don’t believe, the fuller truth is that I believe just enough that I’m uncomfortable talking about my not believing.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “She shut the door in his face and retired to the library, ringing the maid for an old-fashioned. The winter sun was radiant in the windows and her blood thrilled at life’s gruesome pageant.”

65. “She shut the door in his face and retired to the library, ringing the maid for an old-fashioned. The winter sun was radiant in the windows and her blood thrilled at life’s gruesome pageant.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “A stream of leaves funneled down the road and pulled him toward his mint-coloured house, the location of his life, the place where he passed through time, passed through rooms.”

66. “A stream of leaves funneled down the road and pulled him toward his mint-coloured house, the location of his life, the place where he passed through time, passed through rooms.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “When we gamble, we’re asking the universe what we’re worth, and the universe, terrifyingly, tells us.”

67. “When we gamble, we’re asking the universe what we’re worth, and the universe, terrifyingly, tells us.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “When the work was over there was the maintenance of his home and person and of course his reading, which was a living thing, always moving, eluding, growing, and he knew it could not end, that it was never meant to end.”

68. “When the work was over there was the maintenance of his home and person and of course his reading, which was a living thing, always moving, eluding, growing, and he knew it could not end, that it was never meant to end.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Eileen was not charming but had contemplated charm and could perform a version of it that was convincing so long as you didn’t inspect it very closely.”

69. “Eileen was not charming but had contemplated charm and could perform a version of it that was convincing so long as you didn’t inspect it very closely.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “His mother did love him; it was just that she didn’t understand him.”

70. “His mother did love him; it was just that she didn’t understand him.”

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Patrick deWitt Quote: “Bob, the shrug is a useful tool, and seductive in its way; but it is only one arrow in the quiver and we mustn’t overuse it lest we give the false impression of vacancy of the mind, do you see my point?”

71. “Bob, the shrug is a useful tool, and seductive in its way; but it is only one arrow in the quiver and we mustn’t overuse it lest we give the false impression of vacancy of the mind, do you see my point?”

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