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The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics)

by William Faulkner

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Mar 02, 2018 03:34PM

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Walking

by Henry David Thoreau

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Jarl Jackson said: " In these pages, you will find a passage that emulates Jesus's calling of all of us out of the world to follow Him, leaving father and mother... Only with Thoreau it is SIMPLY (of course) to go for a walk---or is it? People say its his "screed" on the ...more "

Dec 14, 2017 08:53PM · see review

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This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

by Wendell Berry

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Mar 01, 2018 11:03PM

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“He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.”
― T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

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“I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.”
― Wendell Berry, This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

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“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: business, compassion, cruel, cruelity, days-of-the-week, food-for-thought, friday, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypocritical, israelmore-ayivor, kind, kindness, life, lifetime, love, monday, passion, saturday, sunday, thursday, tuesday, wednesday, week

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“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: heartbreak, longing, love, pain, sorrow, unrequited-love

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“White!" he sneered. "It serves as a beginning. White cloth may dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken."
"In which case it is no longer white," said I. "And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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