Susan Hubbard Quotes

#1. What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).

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#2. Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.

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#3. What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now.
He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.

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#4. My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.

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#5. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.

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#6. I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.

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#7. In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

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#8. Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.

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#9. Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?"
"Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.

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