There There
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“There is no there there,” he says in a kind of whisper, with this goofy openmouthed smile Dene wants to punch. Dene wants to tell him he’d looked up the quote in its original context, in her Everybody’s Autobiography, and found that she
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“Beyond these shores, whenever two or more Irishmen are gathered together, everything almost can be done.”
― The Immortal Irishman: Thomas Meager and the Invention of Irish America
― The Immortal Irishman: Thomas Meager and the Invention of Irish America
“But it all comes down to faith. Once you get a little glimmer of how powerful faith really is, a lot of things that used to be impossible to imagine seem perfectly natural.” “And”
― Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
― Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
“From the earliest age, we must learn to say good-bye to friends and family. We see our parents and siblings off at the station; we visit cousins, attend schools, join the regiment; we marry or travel abroad. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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