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White Fang
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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.
“Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.”
― Hillbilly Elegy
― Hillbilly Elegy
“life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
― White Fang
― White Fang
“I just wanted reassurance. “Mamaw, does God love us?” She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.”
― Hillbilly Elegy
― Hillbilly Elegy
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason.”
― Tragic sense of life
― Tragic sense of life
“But the best book I ever saw in the nick was the Bible. When I was in Brixton on remand, I ’ad one in the flowery. Smashing thin paper for rolling dog-ends in. I must ’ave smoked my way through the book of Genesis, before I went to court.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
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