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“because I know the difference between preaching and anesthesia.”
― Any Bitter Thing
― Any Bitter Thing
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true.”
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
“The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God's own brutal hand, and only the animals know enough to make a run for it.”
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
“Maybe he, like Mum, believed God had delivered three extra children, one-two-three, as a sign of His plan for this couple's long, long friendship. But God had also delivered to him the Oxford Paper Company, and the foamy river it sat upon. And the long working hours it required. And the poison it put in the air. Three more girls from God might portend a long married life, but a multi-acre paper mill, with much heat but no heart, could make for still competition if it decided to bestow the opposite.
Maybe it was the work.”
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Maybe it was the work.”
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
“In they went, over the footbridges to mills flourishing on Chisholm land. “To the Rumford Falls Paper Company, which made—?” “Newsprint!” “And the Rumford Falls Sulphite Company?” “Sulphite pulp!” “And the International Paper Company?” “Manila, envelope paper, newsprint, and writing paper!” “And the Continental Paper and Bag Company?” “Bags and envelopes!” And finally, on the land where the river made its elbow bend into Mexico, the Oxford Paper Company, Hugh’s ruby of modern papermaking, an innovation that eventually enfolded its sister mills and met what its”
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
― When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
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