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“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“He's a good man. Trying to be better. Trying to come to terms with the fact that he lived his entire life believing a lie.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“I don't like it either but when power is so entrenched, so impossibly distant, blood becomes the only possible currency of change.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“A society cannot make a man a monster, Diago. But it can give him the excuse to become one.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“Ranching was life distilled: birth and death, the hard winter giving way to spring, and spring to the heat and fast black storms of summer. There was a violence in it, a violence you tried in all ways to diminish but a violence you nonetheless had to know and hold. In this tilting world, when so many had gotten away from anything resembling the actual, were living what Rene thought of as supermarket lives, ranching at least kept you close to what mattered, to what was real.”
― The Entire Sky
― The Entire Sky
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