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“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― The Fall of Atlantis
― The Fall of Atlantis
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
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“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Long Goodbye
― Long Goodbye
“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”
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