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"Agee wrote “like someone who had not just viewed the movie but been in it — out with it, as if it were a girl; drinking with it; driving in the night with it."
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Lovers of Emily Dickinson and American History
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"To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove."
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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You will enter the world of families beginning a new life in the Ohio wilderness. The saga is told through the voice of Sayward, the eldest daughter. The edition contains all three of the trilogy - The Trees, The Fields, The Town. They can also be pur...more |
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
― Albert Camus
“To have courage for whatever comes in life
– everything lies in that”
― Santa Teresa de Jesús
― Santa Teresa de Jesús
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.”
― Marilynne Robinson
― Marilynne Robinson
“All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.”
― Billy Collins
― Billy Collins
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