M.J. Hayes
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“No, that is the great fallacy; The wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
Count Greffi to Frederick -Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms” ...more Ernest HEMIGWAY |
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“Freedom was everything to Abraham, and I reckon that makes sense being reared in bondage such as he was, but it was larger than that. Freedom seemed to be a part of him, like it was built in. As much a part of him as his skin or hair or eyes”
― Son of the Mountain
― Son of the Mountain
“Maybe something happens to a man at that age when life had always worked out the way he had wanted it, or made it. When he had been able to take it like a block of clay and mold it in the way he saw fit, or grab it like a sapling and force it to bend to his will. When he had been life's master, and not the other way around.”
― The Devil's Hand
― The Devil's Hand
“Some events in our lives are so disturbing, or unsettling, that even when they are over they prevent us from ever going back to the way we were before, back to 'normal.' Whether we like it or not, we as people are forever changed.”
― The Devil's Hand
― The Devil's Hand
“The woods can be strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you didn't notice.”
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“while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.”
― The Shepherd of the Hills
― The Shepherd of the Hills
“There are some things you don't ask a man. Not if you respect him. He's entitled to stake his claim to what he considers private to himself alone.”
― Shane
― Shane
“All the same he got a pinch of misery, thinking, just as he had sometimes in Kentucky when he'd be out in the woods, feeling good that he was alone, with everything to himself, and then he would spy someone and it would all be spoiled, as if the country wasn't his any more, or the woods or the quiet.”
― The Big Sky
― The Big Sky
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