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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could
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“but a story is a flute through which truth breathes.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“Nowhere does time slow down more gently than inside a museum,”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“It is our way of admitting we were weak and flawed, and that we made mistakes, some inevitable, others foolish, but deep within we appreciated beauty and poetry, too. Each historical artifact, therefore, is a silent plea from ancestors to descendants, “Do not judge us too harshly.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“why today, now that I am old, I will admit to being a fuzzy-minded socialist, and a weakly committed one at that, a socialist who looks down the ballot, shrugs, and votes for the Democrat candidates despite their shortcomings.”
― The Magic Kingdom
― The Magic Kingdom
“Harris and I are more formal, like two diplomats who aren’t sure if the other one has poisoned our drink.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
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