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“In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology”
― The Doorman
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology”
― The Doorman

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces

“The weather was clear, the track fast
War Admiral broke first and finished last.”
― Seabiscuit: An American Legend
War Admiral broke first and finished last.”
― Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words?”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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