"I’ve always known people for whom a goal was everything, who never thought nothing about the consequences of the goal achieved."

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“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”

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“Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.”

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