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“Turmoil shook loose all sorts of unpleasant truths. But it took peace to examine them.”
― The Long Way Home
― The Long Way Home
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
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“How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?” Olivier asked. “Once,” Ruth admitted. “Wrote quite a good poem before I coughed it up.”
― The Long Way Home
― The Long Way Home
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