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John Wade’s campaign manager. A fat, unattractive man, Tony seems utterly amoral throughout much of the novel, often telling John that he should avoid talking about the issues and focus on his “image.” In spite of his apparent cynicism, Tony has a crush on Kathy, and often tells her that he’d willingly lose weight if it meant that he’d have “a shot” with her. Kathy suggests that Tony isn’t as cynical as he seems, and puts up an appearance of cynicism to disguise his true idealism.
Anthony “Tony” L. Carbo Quotes in In the Lake of the Woods
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Chapter 2
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He didn’t talk much. Even his wife I don’t think she knew the first damn thing about him … well, about any of it. The man just kept everything buried.
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Chapter 6
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You know, I think politics and magic were almost the same thing for him. Transformations—that’s part of it—trying to change things. When you think about it, magicians and politicians are basically control freaks.
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Chapter 22
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All you could do, he’d said, was open yourself up like a window and wait for fortune to blow in. And then they’d talked about stuck windows. Tony suggested that she unstick herself. So she’d shrugged and said she had tried it once but the unsticking hadn’t gone well.
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Anthony “Tony” L. Carbo Quotes in In the Lake of the Woods
The In the Lake of the Woods quotes below are all either spoken by Anthony “Tony” L. Carbo or refer to Anthony “Tony” L. Carbo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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He didn’t talk much. Even his wife I don’t think she knew the first damn thing about him … well, about any of it. The man just kept everything buried.
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Chapter 6
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You know, I think politics and magic were almost the same thing for him. Transformations—that’s part of it—trying to change things. When you think about it, magicians and politicians are basically control freaks.
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Chapter 22
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All you could do, he’d said, was open yourself up like a window and wait for fortune to blow in. And then they’d talked about stuck windows. Tony suggested that she unstick herself. So she’d shrugged and said she had tried it once but the unsticking hadn’t gone well.
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