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“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
“But I’d better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn’t come any sooner.”
― The Family of Pascual Duarte
― The Family of Pascual Duarte
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...”
― La familia de Pascual Duarte
― La familia de Pascual Duarte
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