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Wasn't there anything to lift him out of this stillness inside? (Anne Tyler)


He made his breakfast toast and ate it absently, chewing each mouthful twenty times and gazing at the toaster while he tried to find just one heroic undertaking that he could aim his life toward.

Anne Tyler (in Celestial Navigation)

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