It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
Josephine TeyA thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
Josephine TeyRiches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.
Josephine TeyI expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.
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