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  1. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    The last time the Right Honourable Gentleman raised the accusation about the policies of this government forcing his constituents to resort to inedible foods-in that case, as I remember, it was ants, earwigs, and glowworms-the National Health looked very seriously into the matter, and their inspectors. . . ." "Division! Division!" cried out some who had got the scent of blood, and Mallet Scuffs himself, successfully diverted, cried out, "Weevils, too! Weevils and grubs!" "Their inspectors. . . ." "Weevils, too, weevils and grubs! Weevils, too, weevils and grubs!" chanted a Marxist anti-missile faction.
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  2. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    Better a bird in hand than hell knows what in the bush.
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  3. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
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  4. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.
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  5. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?
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  6. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love.
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  7. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
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  8. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.''It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.
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  9. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
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  10. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.
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  11. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    People in my constituency are starving and born with sixteen fingers. Did you ever eat weasel shish-kebob? Freddy doesn't walk by the side of the motorways to gather dandelions for his salad, but the people who sent me here do. Why are we supporting him? He doesn't deserve it. The Tories won't give milk to children who go to school hungry and come home to baked cat.
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  12. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldom read and heeded less, told beautifully and in silence of all the victories that had ever been won and all the defeats ever suffered. In uncountable lines of light across the widest sphere, the stars spoke of everything notable even down to a leaf blowing rhythmically in the wind.
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