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The Magician's Elephant

by Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)

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“Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

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“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

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“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

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“There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.”
― Ludmilla Ulitskaya, Daniel Stein, Interpreter

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“We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

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