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George Orwell
“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
George Orwell, 1984

John  Williams
“Stoner was one of the pallbearers at the funeral. At the services he could not keep his mind on the words the minister said, but he knew that they were empty. He remembered Sloane as he had first seen him in the classroom; he remembered their first talks together; and he thought of the slow decline of this man who had been his distant friend. Later, after the services were over, when he lifted his handle of the gray casket and helped to carry it out to the hearse, what he carried seemed so light that he could not believe there was anything inside the narrow box.”
John Williams, Stoner

Denis Johnson
“He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.”
Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

Richard Ford
“He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.”
Richard Ford, Canada

Denis Johnson
“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”
Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

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