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The Calamity Club

by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)

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“A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

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“What we fear we often rage against.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

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“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”
― William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

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“One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

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“Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

tags: home-town, homesick, old-life

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