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Really, Lewis imagines, he deserves some big Indian award for having made it to thirty-six without pulling into the drive-through for a burger and fries, easing away with diabetes and high blood pressure and leukemia. And he gets the rest
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-Ann Atwater”
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“Is it the war that’s done it to you?
It’s all war, she said. What is? I don’t know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state.”
― Cloudstreet
― Cloudstreet
“I don’t think we can strategize against a player that we’re unwilling to understand. We will neither fight effectively, nor negotiate successfully, if we are too blinded by fear of hatred to see what’s really going on—or to consider how the other side justifies the things they do.”
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“There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children’s book, and the board game.”
― Saga, Volume 3
― Saga, Volume 3
“Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted the earth is lighter, the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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