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“For a long while, he sat on the steps and sharpened the chain-saw blade with a round file, dipping it in bar-and-chain oil and raking it over each tooth with sleek, grating sounds. He lost himself in the rhythm of the labor. A victory over tears is a small thing, but it was his. The sky went from indigo to blackness, and he saw nothing ominous in it, nothing but cold stars wheeling in their course, a course determined by the same firm hand he hoped was guiding his own. But satellites, too, crossed the sky in sly, winking arcs. Sull knew that. He could not let himself be confounded. He went inside, to sleep beside his wife.”
― Allegheny Front
― Allegheny Front
“An idle life cannot be pure.”
― Uncle Vanya
― Uncle Vanya
“Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us. It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another, any of us, even the most valuable, that makes our lives like those of a litter of kittens in a wood-pile.”
― The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
― The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
“What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.”
― Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
― Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“[T]here exists an allegiance between the dead and the unborn of which we the living are merely the ligature.”
― The Dominion of the Dead
― The Dominion of the Dead
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