It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

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“I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in…”

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wan…”

“If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every ch…”