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Rabbit Run

Updike, John | Fawcett Crest, 1960

 

p. 38

“Tothers is silent before replying. His great strength is in these silences; other men hasten to respond instantly, as if they were always embarrassed, but Tothers has the disciplinarian’s trick of waiting a moment. As if he considers everything. It gives him great weight.”