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“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“But we didn’t know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we’d grown up with.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we’d still have something like this.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Not like I was. I’ve come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We’re just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Addie and Louis sat down in front. She had arranged the funeral and told the minister about Ruth. He hadn't known her at all. She had stopped going to any church because of her feeling about orthodoxy and the childish ways in which churches talked and thought about God.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“people do. But, Daddy, it’s not right. I didn’t know you even cared for Addie Moore. Or even knew her that well. You’re right. I didn’t. But that’s the main point of this being a good time. Getting to know somebody well at this age. And finding out you like her and discovering you’re not just all dried up after all. It just seems embarrassing. To whom? It’s not to me. But people know about you. Of course they do. And I don’t give a damn. Who told you? It must’ve been one of your tightass friends in town here. It was Linda Rogers. She would. Well, she thought I should know. And now you do.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Where are you?
You mean where in the house?
Are you in your bedroom?
Yes, I've been reading. Is this some kind of phone sex?
It's just two old people talking in the dark, Addie said.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we’d still have something like this. That it turns out we’re not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.”
― Paul Simon