The Power of the Dog: The classic Western, now an Oscar and Bafta Award-winning film starring Benedict Cumberbatch

by Thomas Savage

To be kind is to try to remove obstacles in the way of those who love or need you.’

you do wonder sometimes if people are what you think they are, or if you only think that they are and they are what they are and not what you think.

how one man passes a gift on to another, how like the very chains and lengths of rawhide rope a man makes, human character is woven on a strand of this and a strand of that — sometimes beautifully and sometimes poorly.