“America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable”
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“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
“That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business.”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
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