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The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh

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The eye craved mountains, the heart shrank from the vast solitude, but the soaring ranges were far to the east and north, as far as the horizon. It looked to Karl like pictures of the moon, gray and desolate. Under a black sky like this, ...more

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Missy’s Quotes

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

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“The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.”
― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

tags: danger, forest, jungle, weakness

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“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: imagination

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“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

tags: life, love

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