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“Leave a mark on the world. Instead, the world has left marks on us. We got older. Life chastened us so that now we lie waiting to die, or walk on canes, or sit on porches where once the young juices flowed strongly, and feel old and inept and confused.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth...”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
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