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“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by—nothing at all, simply imagination.”
― The Boy Who Followed Ripley
― The Boy Who Followed Ripley
“On the farm, this is failure's best hiding place—smack in the middle of runaway success.”
― This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
― This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
“Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.”
― The Quantum Spy
― The Quantum Spy
“Sometimes writing a sentence can be harder than serving one.”
― Famous Writers I Have Known
― Famous Writers I Have Known
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