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I never really warmed to Clovis—he was far too stupid to inspire real affection—but
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
“I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“She said she loved him and he had no cause to doubt it.
They were like a drug in each other’s veins. A crazy bad-news drug, their hands trembled with the hypo, the needle prodded for an un-collapsed vein.
The drug they used was rare and dangerous with unknown and catastrophic side effects – you couldn’t buy it, it had to be stolen under cover of darkness when other folks were asleep or their attention had wandered.”
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They were like a drug in each other’s veins. A crazy bad-news drug, their hands trembled with the hypo, the needle prodded for an un-collapsed vein.
The drug they used was rare and dangerous with unknown and catastrophic side effects – you couldn’t buy it, it had to be stolen under cover of darkness when other folks were asleep or their attention had wandered.”
―
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Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
“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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