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You wouldn’t believe the latitude the law allows in America for a saloon owner to be killing miners, it’s wide. Maybe we were like memories of elsewhere. Maybe
Sebastian Barry • Days Without End: A Novel
What struck me particularly about him was the mixture of a sort of innate natural ferocity with a similarly innate nobility—a mixture such as I have never come across in any other person.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
The following passage by Enrique Hank Lopez, “Back to Bachimba,”
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture.
Jon Krakauer • Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“I wish I had the boy” the old man said aloud. “I’m being towed by a fish and I’m the towing bitt. I could make the line fast. But then he could break it. I must hold him all I can and give him line when he must have it. Thank God he is travelling and not going down.”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA: LIBRARY ROAD CLASSIC
The man must not drink of the running streams, the living waters, who is not prepared to have all nature reborn in him,—to suckle monsters.