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1 " There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. "
― James Purdy , Eustace Chisholm and the Works
2 " One morning while drinking coffee with Amos, Daniel Haws looked up suddenly, as if feeling the boy’s eyes on him, and said:“Tryin’ to burn holes starin’ like that?”“Guess I was just resting my eyes on you so as not to look at your wallpaper,” Amos gave a sour apology.Daniel closed the book he was reading, a volume of Rhodes’s history of the United States, and took a careful look at the kitchen wallpaper.“Yes,” he admitted, “that wallpaper is goddam ancient. "
3 " Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph. "
4 " Why, if Daniel Haws was to take out his naked cock and shake it in your face, you’d die of apoplexy. "
5 " Ace sat down and inflated his cheeks like the wind gods in Italian paintings. "
6 " Most people have their buttons,” Eustace continued. "
7 " Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper. "
8 " Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy’s consolation. "
9 " It was paper, as he had once joked to Amos, that he was really queer for. "
10 " She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now. "
11 " Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got ‘em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could too and if I had something to push between those pearly teeth I’d be first in line. "
12 " One fine day you’ve got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie. "
13 " Carla had the American woman’s fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound. "
