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Montana 1948 by Larry Watson

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My mother fervently believed that my father—indeed, all of us—would be happier if he practiced law and if we did not live in Montana,

Jarrod’s Quotes

“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius: from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

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