John H. Alt
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Loren Eiseley, Wallace Stevens, Milan Kundera, Wallace Stegner, Ernest
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Don't Die in Bed: The Brief Intense Life of Richard Halliburton
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A Rose for Magdalena
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Redemption: A Historic Novel
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[image] Redemption: A Historic Novel follows Cole Wilson across borders, wars, and moral fault lines, but at its heart this is a story about what it costs to stay human in a world that often rewards cruelty. From a haunting act of violence in Mexi ...more |
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“There's your dog, and your dog's dead. But there has to be something that made it move. Isn't there?" Old woman in Gates of Heaven, documentary by Errol Morris.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient dryness of the sun-parched earth, veiled only by the diaphanous gauze woven of distance and the shade of the trees.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
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