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Does she know all the people she says she knows?”
“She knows everybody.”
“Maybe that’s why she’s getting old.

— Ross Thomas Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

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Eight-fifteen in the morning in Washington is not a happy time.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

You can grieve when someone dies. But when someone is near death, and there is the chance that you might prevent it if you make the right decision, anxiety takes over.

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Never end a sentence with a preposition,” he recited.
“Not never; just seldom.

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Your countrymen, McCorkle, are seemingly indifferent to what happens in Africa.
Most of them don’t care about what happens here, as long as it happens on the next block.

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