I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.
("Angle of Repose")
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Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.Wallace Stegner
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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She saw objectives, not obstacles.
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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