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“The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.”
― The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
― The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“The way to that armbar was some twenty movements tried and countered, twenty deceptions tendered until one stuck and Jared relaxed into the elaborate trap set for him. “Like chess” is the dull analogy of the unimaginative, but more like snake-charming, the job being one of drawing out, wooing a body from its tight clenched coil into a single yielding line.”
― Thrown
― Thrown
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