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With his words, he crushed these people. Killed these people. They were never, ever the same. They now lived in a netherworld where the unthinkable happened. Where the boundaries would now forever be proscribed by “before” and “after.”
“No one in life, not the wartiest old dame in Aries, not the wrinkledest, stoopingest Cossack, not the pony-tailedest, venerablest old Mandarin in China, not Methuselah himself, will ever be older than a group of seniors at school. They are like Victorian photographs of sporting teams. No matter how much more advanced in years you are now than the age of those in the photograph, they will always look a world older, always seem more capable of growing a bigger moustache and holding more alcohol. The sophistication with which they sit and the air of maturity they give off is unmatchable by you. Ever.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment,” he writes. “I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly. I can choose to listen to the voices that forgive and to look at the faces that smile even while I still hear words of revenge and see grimaces of hatred.”
― What Happened
― What Happened
“the president’s oath to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and presidents have strained against the strictures of that oath since World War I.”
― Enemies: A History of the FBI
― Enemies: A History of the FBI
“I never saw a tree,” Dillard declares, in a valuable piece of advice to writers of any and every stripe, “that was no tree in particular.”
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
“He was beyond exhausted, and felt like he’d been eaten by a coyote and shit off a cliff.”
― THE OTHER CHEEK
― THE OTHER CHEEK
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