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She is here, still here. It was as if a rushing river had routed itself through my house, which was pervaded now by a freshwater scent and the awareness of something lavish, natural, and breathtaking always moving nearby.
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“And Hollywood did what Hollywood does best–it decided against a Disney adaptation of my novel because they thought it might make them look “anti-zoo” (I kid you not.)”
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
“Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
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