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“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“No one dies of sorrow. No one dies of loss. That's just in films. If they did, all we Afghans would have died by now. Somehow, you live, God gives you a way.”
― Good People
― Good People
“Happiness, I'd learned, was like a dragonfly hovering over a field: long-winged, iridescent, quick to shift direction. You had to keep your eyes open, to watch for it,,”
― The Foursome
― The Foursome
“I supposed there is this one part of it, which is, Gilbert has never left me, and the circumstances of his death have never for one day diminished, and as I age it feels so strange that the majority of people with whom I come in contact don't have the slightest inkling that he ever lived.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“We live in homes until we leave them, and then they live in us.”
― The Burning Side
― The Burning Side
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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