"She was wearing, besides her rubbers and her hunting jacket, two dresses and seven flannel shirts, not to keep off the cold, Sylvie said, but to show herself a woman of substance."
- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson (87)
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Bennington, VT
"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for."
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Penguin, 33)
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Girl interrupted (1999)
"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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