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It had been there seven years and in seven years more it would destroy all the timber within its reach. Then some of the machinery
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“Birds are waterproof.”
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“He blew time like he had it to spare, like it grew on clocks instead of died there.”
― Welcome to Braggsville
― Welcome to Braggsville
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.”
― Loving Day
― Loving Day
“New Orleans was like that. A live-and-let-live attitude was ingrained into the fabric of the city; no one cared who you were or what you looked like - you had a place, and everyone respected that.”
― Doll-baby
― Doll-baby
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