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“Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.” - p. 411

“And if he doesn't get the answer he just drives and drives until he gets one and that leads to another question and he drives and drives for the answer to that ... endlessly pursuing questions, never seeing, never understanding that the questions will never end. Something is missing and he knows it and will kill himself trying to find it.” - p. 402

“The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are big but the psychic distances between people are small, and here it's reversed.” - p. 356

One of my greatest passions, besides literature, is to tinker in private with agricultural machinery. I am particularly fond of John Deere tractors. But lately old Yamaha machines from the 90s have caught my deeper interest. Just kidding… I have no idea why I read this book.