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Been on the river thirty years, York. Rafted down to New Orleans when I was just a boy, and worked flatboats and keelboats both before steamers. I been a pilot and a mate and a striker, even a mud clerk. Been everything there is to be in this business, but one thing I never been, and that's a sharper.
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Abner Marsh to Joshua York when York questions his honesty, Fevre Dream (1982)

 

George R. R. Martin

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