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“One of the dirty secrets of the moving business is that a shipper has no idea what kind of human offal a driver might pick up for day labor.”
― Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

“large shower room with six spigots, like in high school, and there was a coin slot next to each spigot. You put in a quarter and that bought you five minutes’ worth of hot water. If you wanted more, you put in more money. Where was I supposed to put my quarters? I ended up thumbing them into my bar of soap.”
― Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

“These folks were from a far different cultural mileu than any Irish peasant and going it alone out in the Wild West. Reminds me of some of the Chinese. You can go into the furthest reaches of, say, Montana or northwest Ontario and find some little dusty town with a hitching post and a church, and there will be the Chinese restaurant.”
― Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

“The decline of American democracy did not begin with Trump, and it will not end with his departure from the White House. Our republic’s sickness has its roots in decades of rising political polarization that has turned our two parties into something akin to warring tribes,”
― Larry Diamond, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

“Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . . . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us. But in the crystal shop you probably realized that even the glasses were collaborating in your success.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream