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“He set off right away, glad of his boots, an old army pair. The leather had outlasted three complete sets of stitching. They were the most comfortable footwear he had ever known. There's no happiness like a good pair of boots, he thought as he walked. Boots, if they were just exactly right for you, changed the way you felt. In fact, there was no happiness like marching alone up a track towards evening in the desert. His limbs tingled. For a while he didn't care if he ever found what he was looking for, if he had to give it all up tomorrow. Nothing mattered but this march through the wide open air of the desert hillside.”
― The Lost City
― The Lost City
“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Operation Einstein
― Operation Einstein
“November arrives in Northern Maine on a cold wind from Canada that knives unfiltered through the thinnest forest, drapes snow along the river banks and over the slope of hills. It's lonely up here, not just in fall and winter but all the time; the weather is gray and hard and the spaces are long and hard, and that north wind blows through every space unmercifully, rattling the syllables out of your sentences sometimes.”
― Julius Winsome
― Julius Winsome
“the gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
“Jackson?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘What’s a pundit?’ ‘I think it’s one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.’ ‘Yes, that sounds very likely.”
― The Strange Attractor
― The Strange Attractor
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