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I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.
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― The Man on the Ceiling
― The Man on the Ceiling
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Perhaps that’s why he became so interested in history, […] He felt that if you read everything and put the pieces all together the real truth would emerge. It would be, somehow, like carpentry. Everything would fit together just so, and you would see in the end something like ‘a perfect building called the past.
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― No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
― No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
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