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1 " Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match. "
― Sarah Moore Fitzgerald , The Apple Tart of Hope
2 " Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender Is the Night
