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“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“It is not easy to make a friend let alone lose one.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“Buttered toast in a sunlit kitchen, a stand of corn and squash out back, a coming reality where sorrow did not draw and quarter them every waking dawn. Is it so much to ask? A three-chord song, a common life? Could we all have that, someday? Could I?”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“Lark and I had media once—internet, TV, the vivid suspect world delivered secondhand, ready always to predict our moods and sell us better ones—but we were early abandoners.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“By this time of course reading itself was slipping into shadow. There was a sinuous mistrust of text and its defenders. The country had recently elected its first proudly illiterate president, A MAN UNSPOILT as he constantly bellowed, and this chimp was wildly popular everywhere he went.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
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