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“—It wasn’t a bother at all, the old gent replied, gesturing toward his bed. I was only reading. Ah, I thought, seeing the corner of the book poking out from the folds of his sheets. I should have known. The poor old chap, he suffers from the most dangerous addiction of all.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“He too had watched as the outer limits of his life had narrowed from the world at large, to the island of Manhattan, to that book-lined office in which he awaited with a philosophical resignation the closing of the finger and thumb. And then this... This! A little boy from Nebraska appears at his doorstep with a gentle demeanor and a fantastical tale. A tale not from a leather-bound tome mind you... But from life itself. How easily we forget-we in the business of storytelling- that life was the point all along.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“Making a fresh start isn't just a matter of having a new address in a new town. It isn't a matter of having a new job or a new phone number or even a new name.A fresh start requires a cleaning of the slate and that means paying off all that you owe and collecting all that you are due.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“But being grateful was one thing, and being beholden, that was another thing altogether.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
Willig, White, and Williams
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