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“The good sadness, I think, is always trying to tell us something very important”

“She caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”

Rereading because every detail of this book has departed from my memory

“You burrow until you hit bedrock. Then you burrow into the bedrock. And finally you get to the bottom. And then you buy out. That’s my idea. Let’s hear yours.”

This is the one that gets me back in the groove

Joan on the counterculture movement:
“This was not a traditional generational rebellion. At some point between 1945 and 1967 we had somehow neglected to tell these children the rules of the game we happened to be playing.”

“But Durango. The very name hallucinates. Man’s country. Out where the West begins.”

“Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.”