O.K."
"Gee I'm glad."
"Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river."
"You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?"
"Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

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There's a shark. Following the ship.'

I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs.

Walter, we'll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.'

I guess we better have a moon.'

I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight.

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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

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Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

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You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

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With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture, and this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls. You think just because you've made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump, whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing. With this money, I can get away from every rotten, stinking thing that makes me think of this place or you!

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Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

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If you have to do it, you can do it.

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There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared.

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