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“The new year arrives, which of course never means as much as you hope unless you happen to sell calendars. One day becomes another, now becomes then. Winter spreads out across the town like a relative with slightly too much self-confidence,”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Spring arrives. It always finds us, in the end. The wind sweeps winter away, the trees rustle and birds start making a fuss, and nature suddenly crashes through with a deafening roar where the snow has swallowed every echo for months.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“were crowded in elbow to elbow and ethos to ethos, shrouded in a haze of cigarette smoke.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that’s about as good a gift as chance intends to offer.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Music is clean, clear, its rules are forever, another country for the mind to go to, and so this search for employment among the drinking places of Galveston did not bother him. To Simon, the world of musical structures was far more real than the shoddy saloons in which he had to play. Nothing could match it, nothing in this day-to-day world could ever come up to it. It existed outside him. It was better than he was. He was always on foot in that world, an explorer in busted shoes.”
― Simon the Fiddler
― Simon the Fiddler
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