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A Past full of Eccentric People Doing Things
“They were funny, these old women; they may have talked constantly of the past, but it was a past full of particular and often eccentric people doing things that charmed and amused me. I remarked on it once to Grammaude: … Continue reading
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The Rest of Her Life Lies Before Her on a Clear and Shining Track
“It is an electric storm of some violence. They can see the forked lightning flash around them and above them. The snowy peaks and dark creased mineral clefts and ridges of the sharp alps are ranged inhospitably below them. The … Continue reading
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Thus the visual society
“If a man is tall, then clearly he has authority. If he has a gorgeous voice, then his words are also golden. If he looks…remote and spiritual, then so is the man within. Thus the visual society. Except that just … Continue reading
Boyd was a Perfect Cowboy
“Frank thought for a minute. Boyd was a perfect cowboy. All he cared about was cows, but he did care about cows. He could see a sore-footed one from almost two miles off, as Frank had one day found out. … Continue reading
She was of the Stuff of Which Great Men’s Mothers are Made
” Deeds of endurance which seem ordinary in philosophy are rare in conduct, and Bathsheba was astonishing all around her now, for her philosophy was her conduct, and she seldom thought practicable what she did not practice. She was of … Continue reading
Never Slow Down, Never Look Back
“As always, Marley was faithfully by my side, and as I scratched his ears, it occurred to me that he was at about the same turning point in life. We had brought him home six years earlier. In dog years, … Continue reading
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The Importance of any Event is Measured by Your Memory’s Loyalty to It
“My father told me once that the importance of any event was measured by your memory’s loyalty to it. When he said that, he was facing away from me at his work table, painting on a wing stripe. He seemed … Continue reading
We Lay Our Sleeping Lives
“She asked nothing from those she loved except to be able to trust them. Perhaps that is not nothing, perhaps it is a great deal. I don’t know, I can’t say. She only wanted to feel she could surrender herself, … Continue reading
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