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Category Archives: Beautifully written-quotes
We Choose The Lens Through Which We View The World
“The events of the past always color how we view the present and future, so it’s important to put them into a useful perspective. We do have that choice…we choose the lens through which we see the world. So now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, choice, hopeful future, inspiration, love, quote, truth
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Ours was More a Sudden Notice
“It was winter when I first saw Call Lucas, though I’d seen him, sure, before. Ours was more a sudden notice, like a secret thought grown big, then bigger, till you blurt it out and nearly jump inside your skin … Continue reading
Violet Writes about Living in Paris, 1904
“This is far & away the most beautiful town I’ve ever seen. I love the great open places (like Place de la Concorde) surrounded by fine buildings & monuments & flooded by light & air & sun. The long look … Continue reading
Barreled Against Every Challenge
“Brigadier Driscoll was coming from the pond. In youth an athlete, Driscoll held himself in past tension, barreled against every challenge. Wet and near naked, his body was corded by evidence of past exploits, muscles and sinews pushing up through … Continue reading
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Being Right Twice a Day is Better Than Never Being Right At All
“WELCOME TO BURDOCK COUNTY, hails the peeling roadside billboard out at the county line, THE ASPARAGUS BED OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Not that anyone in Burdock County actually grows asparagus in any noteworthy quantity; we’re in tobacco country here, and asparagus … Continue reading
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men
” He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west. He turned south along the old war trail and he rode to the crest of a low rise and dismounted and dropped the … Continue reading
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