You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
("The Hotel New Hampshire")
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he'd not yet seen.
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