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Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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Kyle is Currently Reading

Kyle B is currently reading

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: dirty-realism, english-irish-scottish-welsh, short-stories, currently-reading

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Kyle’s Quotes

“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

tags: dreaming, dreams, life

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“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.”
― Richard Ford

tags: inspirational

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

tags: life, marriage, memories, memory, nostalgia

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“It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a
tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

tags: writing

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