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We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
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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.
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All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
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He [Quoyle] did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.
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We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...
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Which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.
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It was not until the next evening that he discovered he had a page from Leviticus stuck to his back.
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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?
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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Annie Proulx
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Born:
August 22, 1935
(age 88)
Bio:
Edna Ann Proulx is an American journalist and author. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
Known for:
Barkskins (2016)
The Shipping News (1993)
Brokeback Mountain (1997)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999)
Accordion Crimes (1996)
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