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“We are never prepared for what we expect.”
― Caravans
― Caravans
“and as I remember your grandmother and I were already casting eyes at each other more than we were casting for fish”
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“Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
“People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.”
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“a happy birthday
this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand”
― Delights and Shadows
this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand”
― Delights and Shadows
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