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“Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”

“God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker ju…”

“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about …”

“Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.”