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“Call it nostalgia.” He lifts his chin. “I call it weakness. To only walk in circles when you could make new roads.”
“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”
― Winesburg, Ohio
― Winesburg, Ohio
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“Oh, God — the lives people try to lead.
Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.”
― Mother Night
Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.”
― Mother Night
“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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