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This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.
Rag and Bone (2001)
He had the open, cheerful, rather self-satisfied countenance of someone upon whom life had made very few demands.
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Patricia Ryan was a tall, beautiful woman about whom many stories were told, some of them true.
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[Henry] "Maybe she hasn't learned yet that good people can make terrible mistakes and still be good people."
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The isolation that was so much a part of the city's psyche, the feeling that its ten million people were all living parallel lives that never intersected
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He laughed, but then in a serious voice said, "I have my slips. You gotta know that about me."
"Anyone who has standards has slips, John. Only good people worry about being good."
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[Henry, to Vicky] "I know you think homosexuality is a sin, but that's because you've been taught by ignorant people."
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"You want me to stipulate that the cops violated her constitutional rights?"
"This is the LAPD we're talking about, Kim. It would be shocking if they hadn't violated her rights."
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After he left, the three of us sat on a bench worn to the wood by all the fidgeting bottoms that had occupied it before us.
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[Elena] "Raising a kid is the ultimate exercise in trial and error."
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... the usual hired guns who made up the expert witness circuit and would say basically what they were paid to say.
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All I knew about his life was that he had had the kind of childhood that turns people into psychological time bombs. How would I react when he started to go off? Did I have my own time bomb ticking away in me?
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[Dr Hayward, to Henry, after his heart attack] "Sex is not going to kill you — well, let me amend that. Safe sex is not going to kill you."
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[John, about children] "Mostly, you have to listen and try to hear what they're really telling you and remember that, half the time, they don't know themselves."
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[Henry, to Elena, about Angel] "Remember when Edith called him an invulnerable? I've figured out that what that means isn't that things don't hurt him, but that they don't stop him."
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[Elena, about daughter] "Now I understand that it isn't up to her to be who I might want her to be. It's up to me to love her for who she is."
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[Dr Hayward, to Henry Rios after his heart attack] "You're still a relatively young man. You'll be around for a while. Make the best of it, Henry. Live every moment as fully as you can, even if all you're doing is eating a bowl of soup."
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