He had waited five years and ...

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could \'come over\' some afternoon to a stranger\'s garden.
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
Never confuse activity with action.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.