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In an army whenever you have unnecessary precautions, men guarding sectors which don’t demand it, or being idle for some other reason than that they need the rest, then you’ve acted immorally as a commanderThe less duplication, the less wasted effort, the greater it follows will be the pressure you exert on your opponentAnd the [...]

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He remembered Red and Wilson talking about “keeping a tight ass-hole,” and now he understood what they meantHe began to get the gigglesThe sides of his foxhole were crumbling, and he had a momentary pang of anxiety at the thought that they would collapse in the next shellingHe was beginning to smell himself and he [...]

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“Yeah, early in the summerIt happens to all the fuggin kids, he thought, and they all think it’s something specialWyman probably had been a shy kid, and he could see him talking in the park, telling a girl things he had never been able to say to anyone elseAnd of course the girl would have [...]

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Harvard, New York Extension, as he terms it, and a room and kitchenette in the East SixtiesOh, I’m just a literary con man, he will say I can’t tell you how I’ve slaved over the thing, the lady historical novelist says to himI was so worried about the motivations of Julia, such an elusive bitch, [...]

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He stood quiet beside them, his thin knotted body shivering a littleThey listened to the water sloshing about the bottom of the boat”One minute you’re hot, and then you’re cold,” Gallagher muttered Stanley smiled at himHe felt it necessary to be tactful with Gallagher since his wife had died and it irked himBasically, he had [...]

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But my mind’s made upIt’s no longer an issueI swear, Mama, you make me so upset She becomes silent, and they eat for a few minutes without speaking, both troubled, both absorbed with new arguments they are loath to use for fear of beginning it againAt last she sighs and looks at him Joey, you [...]

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“Goldstein, you’re a no-good bastard, you done that on purpose, Ah been watchin’ ya, and you’re no good The name twisted in Wilson’s head; he remembered the handle at his right foot being called Goldstein, and when the litter had dipped in that direction, he had bawled out the name”Goldstein’s no fuggin good, a man [...]

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iii Except for Pam, I never had a partner in my other lifeEdgar Freemantle’s Four Rules for Success 19 (feel free to take notes) were: never borrow more than your IQ times a hundred, never borrow from a man who calls you by your first name on first acquaintance, never take a drink while the [...]

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He stares at her appraisinglyA nun! Stevie thinks maybe she ought to He looks objectively at her narrow sallow face, the yellowing skin under the eyesYeah, maybe she ought to at thatAgain he is stirred with contempt, and beneath it a vague compassionYa know, Momma, I’m a lucky guy You’re a crook, Mary says Keep [...]

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Aaah, what for? Wha’d I do to you? Beat it He walks through the dormitory, scanning the fifty beds, the half-opened lockers In one of them is an apple, four pennies, and a little crucifixHe cops the cross, saunters back to Lefty’s bunk Hey, Lefty, I got somethin’ for ya What the hell I want [...]

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