Thomas Griesedieck
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But that was a thing about life: it had been known to favour bastards.
“In my father’s last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.”
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“Perhaps you’d like a drink.” “Not before lunch. I’m the new-type detective.”
― The Moving Target
― The Moving Target
“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”
― The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
― The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
“They had come to praise him.
"It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life!" the doctor said.
The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. "Oh, we thought, signore," he said, "that you were merely a poet.”
― The Stories of John Cheever
"It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life!" the doctor said.
The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. "Oh, we thought, signore," he said, "that you were merely a poet.”
― The Stories of John Cheever
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